New American Standard Bible 1995

Joel 1:8-13

8 1Wail like a virgin 2girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.9The 3grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of the Lord. The 4priests mourn, The ministers of the Lord.10The field is 5ruined, 6The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine dries up, Fresh oil 7fails.11 8 9Be ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the 10harvest of the field is destroyed.12The 11vine dries up And the fig tree 12fails; The 13pomegranate, the 14palm also, and the 15 16apple tree, All the trees of the field dry up. Indeed, 17rejoicing dries up From the sons of men.

13 18Gird yourselves with sackcloth And lament, O priests; 19Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, 20spend the night in sackcloth O ministers of my God, For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.

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Notes

1. Joel 1:8 Is 22:12 ↩
2. Joel 1:8 Joel 1:13; Amos 8:10 ↩
3. Joel 1:9 Hos 9:4; Joel 1:13; 2:14 ↩
4. Joel 1:9 Joel 2:17 ↩
5. Joel 1:10 Is 24:4, 7 ↩
6. Joel 1:10 Jer 12:11 ↩
7. Joel 1:10 Lit wastes away ↩
8. Joel 1:11 Or The farmers are ashamed, The vinedressers wail ↩
9. Joel 1:11 Jer 14:4; Amos 5:16 ↩
10. Joel 1:11 Is 17:11; Jer 9:12 ↩
11. Joel 1:12 Joel 1:10; Hab 3:17 ↩
12. Joel 1:12 Lit wastes away ↩
13. Joel 1:12 Hag 2:19 ↩
14. Joel 1:12 Song 7:8 ↩
15. Joel 1:12 Or apricot ↩
16. Joel 1:12 Song 2:3 ↩
17. Joel 1:12 Is 16:10; 24:11; Jer 48:33 ↩
18. Joel 1:13 Jer 4:8; Ezek 7:18 ↩
19. Joel 1:13 Jer 9:10 ↩
20. Joel 1:13 1 Kin 21:27 ↩

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