8Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth,
grieving for the husband of her youth.
9Grain and drink offerings have been cut off
from the house of the LORD;
the priests are in mourning,
those who minister before the LORD.
10The field is ruined;
the land mourns.
For the grain is destroyed,
the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
11Be dismayed, O farmers,
wail, O vinedressers,
over the wheat and barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.
12The grapevine is dried up,
and the fig tree is withered;
the pomegranate, palm, and apple —
all the trees of the orchard— are withered.
Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests;
wail, O ministers of the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
O ministers of my God,
because the grain and drink offerings
are withheld from the house of your God.
— Joel 1:8-13

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