Joel 1:12-14

Modern English Version

¹² The vine is dried up,
    and the fig tree is withered;
pomegranate, palm, and apple—
    all the trees of the field are dry;
surely joy has withered away
    from the sons of men.

¹³ Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests;
    wail, ministers of the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    ministers of my God,
because the grain offering and the drink offering
    are withheld from the house of your God.
¹⁴ Consecrate a fast,
    call a sacred assembly,
assemble the elders
    and all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out to the Lord.