Joel:1:13-20

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* Gird up and lament , priests . Howl , ministers of the altar . Come , spend the night in sackcloth , ministers of my God . For the food offering and the drink offering are held back from the house of your God . * Set apart a fast ; call a solemn assembly ; gather the elders , all the inhabitants of the land , into the house of Jehovah your God , and cry to Jehovah . * Alas for the day ! For the day of Jehovah is at hand . And it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty . * Is not the food cut off before your eyes , joy and gladness from the house of our God ? * The seed shrivels under their clods ; the storage bins are laid waste , the granaries are broken down , for the grain has dried up . * How the beasts groan ! The herds of livestock are vexed , for there is no pasture for them . Even the flocks of sheep are perishing . * O Jehovah , to You I will cry , for the fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness , and the flame has burned all the trees of the field . * The beasts of the field also cry to You , for the rivers of water are dried up , and the fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness .

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