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11 Be dismayed, you farmers!
    Cry aloud, you vintners,
        for the wheat and barley,
    because the harvest in your fields has been lost.
12 The grapevine is shriveled
    and the fig tree is withered,
along with the pomegranate tree, the palm tree, the apple tree
    and all of the cultivated trees.[a]
Truly, joy has evaporated from Adam’s children.”[b]

A Call to Mourn and Repent

13 “Put on your mourning clothes, you priests;
    and cry aloud, you ministering servants at the altar!
Come! Stay the night in mourner’s clothes,[c] you ministers of my God,
    because the grain offering and the wine offering is held back from the Temple of your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:12 Lit. the trees of the field
  2. Joel 1:12 Lit. from sons of mankind
  3. Joel 1:13 Or in sackcloth

11 Despair, you farmers,(A)
    wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,(B)
    because the harvest of the field is destroyed.(C)
12 The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;(D)
the pomegranate,(E) the palm and the apple[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.(F)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.

A Call to Lamentation

13 Put on sackcloth,(G) you priests, and mourn;
    wail, you who minister(H) before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings(I)
    are withheld from the house of your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:12 Or possibly apricot