Joel 1:13-17

Dress in sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; weep, you who minister before the altar! Go and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the grain and wine offerings have stopped in the Temple.

Proclaim a fast; call a sacred assembly. Have the elders and all people of the land gather in the Temple, and cry out to your God, to the Lord.

What a terrible day! For the day of the Lord is near, it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Haven't we seen our food taken away from us, right before our eyes? There is no joy and happiness in God's Temple.

Seeds planted in the ground shrivel up; the storehouses are empty, the barns are torn down because the grain has dried up.