(Joel 1:13-20)
Put on sackcloth and weep,
you priests who serve at the altar!
Go into the Temple and mourn all night!
There is no grain or wine to offer your God.
Give orders for a fast; call an assembly!
Gather the leaders and all the people of Judah
into the Temple of the Lord your God
and cry out to him!
The day of the Lord is near,
the day when the Almighty brings destruction.
What terror that will bring!
We look on helpless as our crops are destroyed.
There is no joy in the Temple of our God.
The seeds die in the dry earth.
There is no grain to be stored,
and so the empty granaries are in ruins.
The cattle are bellowing in distress
because there is no pasture for them;
the flocks of sheep also suffer.
I cry out to you, Lord,
because the pastures and trees are dried up,
as though a fire had burned them.
Even the wild animals cry out to you
because the streams have become dry.
Put on sackcloth and weep,
you priests who serve at the altar!
Go into the Temple and mourn all night!
There is no grain or wine to offer your God.
Give orders for a fast; call an assembly!
Gather the leaders and all the people of Judah
into the Temple of the Lord your God
and cry out to him!
The day of the Lord is near,
the day when the Almighty brings destruction.
What terror that will bring!
We look on helpless as our crops are destroyed.
There is no joy in the Temple of our God.
The seeds die in the dry earth.
There is no grain to be stored,
and so the empty granaries are in ruins.
The cattle are bellowing in distress
because there is no pasture for them;
the flocks of sheep also suffer.
I cry out to you, Lord,
because the pastures and trees are dried up,
as though a fire had burned them.
Even the wild animals cry out to you
because the streams have become dry.
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