Joel 1:12-14

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¹² The vine dries up;
    ^(A)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
    all the trees of the field are dried up,
and ^(B)gladness dries up
    from the children of man.

^13 (C)Put on sackcloth and lament, ^(D)O priests;
    ^(E)wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, ^(F)pass the night in sackcloth,
    ^(G)O ministers of my God!
^(H)Because grain offering and drink offering
    are withheld from the house of your God.
^14 (I)Consecrate a fast;
    ^(J)call a solemn assembly.
Gather ^(K)the elders
    and ^(L)all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out to the Lord.