Joel 1:10-17

English Standard Version

¹⁰The fields are destroyed,
    ^(A)the ground mourns,
because ^(B)the grain is destroyed,
    ^(C)the wine dries up,
    the oil languishes.

¹¹^(D)Be ashamed,^[a] O tillers of the soil;
    wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
    ^(E)because the harvest of the field has perished.
¹²The vine dries up;
    ^(F)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
    all the trees of the field are dried up,
and ^(G)gladness dries up
    from the children of man.

A Call to Repentance

¹³^(H)Put on sackcloth and lament, ^(I)O priests;
    ^(J)wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, ^(K)pass the night in sackcloth,
    ^(L)O ministers of my God!
^(M)Because grain offering and drink offering
    are withheld from the house of your God.

¹⁴^(N)Consecrate a fast;
    ^(O)call a solemn assembly.
Gather ^(P)the elders
    and ^(Q)all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out to the Lord.

¹⁵Alas for the day!
^(R)For the day of the Lord is near,
    and as destruction from the Almighty^[b] it comes.
¹⁶Is not the food cut off
    before our eyes,
^(S)joy and gladness
    from the house of our God?

¹⁷^(T)The seed shrivels under the clods;^[c]
the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
because ^(U)the grain has dried up.

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Footnotes

Joel 1:11 The Hebrew words for dry up and be ashamed in verses 10–12, 17 sound alike
Joel 1:15 Destruction sounds like the Hebrew for Almighty
Joel 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain