Joel 1:7-12

7He has turned my vine to waste and my fig tree to splinters. He has stripped off all the bark and flung it down— its branches are left white.

8Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

9Grain offering and drink offering are cut off from the House of Adonai. Kohanim—ministers of Adonai—mourn.

10The field is ruined, the land grieves, for the grain has been devastated, new wine is dried up, oil languishes.

11Be ashamed, O ploughmen; wail, O vinedressers, over wheat and over barley, for the harvest of the field is lost.

12The vine withered, the fig tree wilted. Pomegranate, palm and apple tree —all trees of the field— are withered, for joy has withered away from the children of men.