Joel 1:13-20

Dress for a funeral and grieve, you priests; lament, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in funeral clothing, servants of my God, because the grain offering and the drink offering have gone from the temple of your God. Demand a fast, request a special assembly. Gather the elders and all the land’s people to the temple of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. What a terrible day! The day of the LORD is near; it comes like chaos from the Almighty. Isn’t the food cut off right before our eyes? Aren’t joy and gladness also gone from our God’s house? The grain shrivels under the shovels; the barns are empty. The granaries are in ruin because the grain has dried up. How the animals groan! Herds of cattle are in distress because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep pant. To you, LORD, I cry, for fire has completely destroyed the pastures of the wilderness; and flames have burned all the trees of the field. Even the field’s wild animals cry to you because the streams have dried up; the fire has completely destroyed the meadows of the wilderness.