Joel 1:8-12

Mourn like a bride dressed in sackcloth, mourning the death of her husband-to-be.

Grain and wine offerings have stopped in the Temple. The priests who minister before the Lord are in mourning.

The fields are devastated, the earth mourns; for the grain is ruined, the new wine dries up, the olive oil fails.

Be ashamed, farmers, and wail in sorrow, keepers of vineyards, over the wheat and the barley, for the crops from the fields are ruined.

The vines are shriveled, the fig trees are withered; the pomegranate, the palm, and the apricot trees—all the fruit trees have dried up, and at the same time the people's happiness has also dried up.