Joel 1:8-13
English Standard Version
8 Lament like a virgin[a] (A)wearing sackcloth
for the bridegroom of her youth.
9 (B)The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
from the house of the Lord.
(C)The priests mourn,
(D)the ministers of the Lord.
10 The fields are destroyed,
(E)the ground mourns,
because (F)the grain is destroyed,
(G)the wine dries up,
the oil languishes.
11 (H)Be ashamed,[b] O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
(I)because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine dries up;
(J)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and (K)gladness dries up
from the children of man.
A Call to Repentance
13 (L)Put on sackcloth and lament, (M)O priests;
(N)wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, (O)pass the night in sackcloth,
(P)O ministers of my God!
(Q)Because grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.
Joel 1:8-13
New International Version
8 Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth(A)
grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
9 Grain offerings and drink offerings(B)
are cut off from the house of the Lord.
The priests are in mourning,(C)
those who minister before the Lord.
10 The fields are ruined,
the ground is dried up;(D)
the grain is destroyed,
the new wine(E) is dried up,
the olive oil fails.(F)
11 Despair, you farmers,(G)
wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,(H)
because the harvest of the field is destroyed.(I)
12 The vine is dried up
and the fig tree is withered;(J)
the pomegranate,(K) the palm and the apple[a] tree—
all the trees of the field—are dried up.(L)
Surely the people’s joy
is withered away.
A Call to Lamentation
Footnotes
- Joel 1:12 Or possibly apricot
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