Joel:1:13-20

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* Gird yourselves and lament , you priests ; Wail , you who minister before the altar ; Come , lie all night in sackcloth , You who minister to my God ; For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God . * Consecrate a fast , Call a sacred assembly ; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land Into the house of the LORD your God , And cry out to the LORD . * Alas for the day ! For the day of the LORD is at hand ; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty . * Is not the food cut off before our eyes , Joy and gladness from the house of our God ? * The seed shrivels under the clods , Storehouses are in shambles ; Barns are broken down , For the grain has withered . * How the animals groan ! The herds of cattle are restless , Because they have no pasture ; Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment . * O LORD , to You I cry out ; For fire has devoured the open pastures , And a flame has burned all the trees of the field . * The beasts of the field also cry out to You , For the water brooks are dried up , And fire has devoured the open pastures .

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