Joel 1:13-20 - A Call To Lamentation

¹³ Be ye girded and lament, ye priests: wail, ye, serving the altar: come in, pass the night in sackcloth, ye serving God: for the gift and the libation were withheld from the house of your God. ¹⁴ Consecrate a fast., call an assembly, gather together the old men, all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah.

¹⁵ Alas! for the day: for the day of Jehovah is near, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. ¹⁶ Was not the food cut off before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness? ¹⁷ The kernels died beneath the clods, the treasures were laid waste, the garners were pulled down, for the grain was dried up. ¹⁸ How the beasts groaned! the herds of oxen wept, for no pasture to them; also the flocks of sheep were laid waste. ¹⁹ To thee, O Jehovah, will I call: for a fire consumed the habitations of the desert, and the flame burned all the trees of the field. ²⁰ Also the beasts of the field will look up to thee: for the channels of waters were dried up, and the fire devoured the habitations of the desert.