Joel 1:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸ Cry, you people, like a young woman who mourns the death
    of the man she was going to marry.
⁹ There is no grain or wine to offer in the Temple;
    the priests mourn because they have no offerings for the Lord.
¹⁰ The fields are bare;
the ground mourns
    because the grain is destroyed,
    the grapes are dried up,
    and the olive trees are withered.