Joel 1:9-15

English Standard Version

⁹^(A)The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
    from the house of the Lord.
^(B)The priests mourn,
    ^(C)the ministers of the Lord.
¹⁰The fields are destroyed,
    ^(D)the ground mourns,
because ^(E)the grain is destroyed,
    ^(F)the wine dries up,
    the oil languishes.

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

A Call to Repentance

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

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