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Joel 1:8-13

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8Wail like a virgin clothed with sackcloth

For the groom of her youth.

9The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off

From the house of the Lord.

The priests mourn,

The ministers of the Lord.

10The field is ruined,

The land mourns;

For the grain is ruined,

The new wine has dried up,

Fresh oil has failed.

11Be ashamed, you farm workers,

Wail, you vinedressers,

For the wheat and the barley;

Because the harvest of the field is destroyed.

12The vine has dried up

And the fig tree has withered;

The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree,

All the trees of the field have dried up.

Indeed, joy has dried up

From the sons of mankind.

13Put on sackcloth

And mourn, you priests;

Wail, you ministers of the altar!

Come, spend the night in sackcloth,

You ministers of my God,

For the grain offering and the drink offering

Have been withheld from the house of your God.