Amavesi eBhayibheli adumile avela kokuthi Joel 1

Dlulisela

Announce a sacred fast;  proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders  and all the residents of the land at the house of the  LORD your God,  and cry out to the  LORD.

Dress in sackcloth and lament,  you priests;  wail,  you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth,  you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

The grapevine is dried up,  and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate,  the date palm,  and the apple   — all the trees of the orchard — have withered. Indeed, human joy has dried up.