Joel 1:13-20 ▼

13 Gird yourselves and lament, you priests! wail, ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God! For the grain offering and the libation are withheld from the house of your God.

14 Proclaim a holy fast! Call an assembly! Gather the elders, all who dwell in the land, To the house of the LORD, your God, and cry out to the LORD!

15 O! The day! For near is the day of the LORD, like destruction from the Almighty it is coming!

16 Before our very eyes has not food been cut off? And from the house of our God, joy and gladness?

17 The seed lies shriveled beneath clods of dirt; the storehouses are emptied. The granaries are broken down, for the grain is dried up.

18 How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered! Because they have no pasture, even the flocks of sheep are starving.

19 To you, LORD, I cry! for fire has devoured the wilderness pastures, flame has scorched all the trees in the field.

20 Even the animals in the wild cry out to you; For the streams of water have run dry, and fire has devoured the wilderness pastures.