Joel 1:8-14

8Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the husband of her youth.

9Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.

10The fields are destroyed; the land grieves; indeed, the grain is destroyed; the new wine is dried up; and the fresh oil fails.

11Be ashamed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

12The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the date palm, and the apple  — all the trees of the orchard — have withered. Indeed, human joy has dried up.

13Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

14Announce a sacred fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land at the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.