Joel 1:7-12 ▼

7 It has made My vine (My people) a waste and object of horror, And splintered and broken My fig tree. It has stripped them completely bare and thrown them away; Their branches have become white.

8 Wail like a virgin [bride] clothed with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth [who has died].

9 The [daily] grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of the LORD; The priests mourn Who minister to the LORD.

10 The field is ruined, The ground mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine is dried up, The fresh oil fails.

11 Be ashamed, O farmers; Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and for the barley, Because the harvest of the field has perished.

12 The vine dries up And the fig tree fails; The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree, All the trees of the field dry up, Indeed, joy dries up and withdraws From the sons of men.