Joel 1:13-20 - A Call To Lamentation

¹³ Gird yourselves and lament, O priests! Wail, ministers of [the] altar! Come spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God, because offering and libation are withheld from the house of your God. ¹⁴ Solemnize a fast! Call an assembly! Gather [the] elders, all [of] the inhabitants of the land [in] the house of Yahweh your God, and cry out to Yahweh.

¹⁵ Ah! For the day! For the day of Yahweh is near. It will come like destruction from Shaddai. ¹⁶ [Is] not food cut [off] before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness? ¹⁷ The seeds shrivel under their clods; the storehouses are desolate. The grain storage places are destroyed because grain has dried out. ¹⁸ How [the] beasts groan; the herds of cattle wander around because there is no pasture for them; [the] flocks of sheep are in distress. ¹⁹ To you, Yahweh, I cry out, because fire has devoured the pastures of the desert, and flames burned all the trees of the field. ²⁰ Also, the beasts of [the] field long for you, because the courses of water are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the desert.