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12 The grapevines and fig trees have withered;
    all the fruit trees have wilted and died.
The joy of the people is gone.
13 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.
14 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!

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12 The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;(A)
the pomegranate,(B) the palm and the apple[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.(C)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.

A Call to Lamentation

13 Put on sackcloth,(D) you priests, and mourn;
    wail, you who minister(E) before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings(F)
    are withheld from the house of your God.
14 Declare a holy fast;(G)
    call a sacred assembly.
Summon the elders
    and all who live in the land(H)
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out(I) to the Lord.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:12 Or possibly apricot