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Joel 1:17

A Call to Repentance

13Put on sackcloth, O priests, and mourn;
wail, you who minister before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings
are withheld from the house of your God.

14Declare a holy fast;
call a sacred assembly.
Summon the elders
and all who live in the land
to the house of the LORD your God,
and cry out to the LORD.

15Alas for that day!
For the day of the LORD is near;
it will come like destruction from the Almighty.Hebrew Shaddai

16Has not the food been cut off
before our very eyes—
joy and gladness
from the house of our God?

17The seeds are shriveled
beneath the clods.The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
The storehouses are in ruins,
the granaries have been broken down,
for the grain has dried up.

18How the cattle moan!
The herds mill about
because they have no pasture;
even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

19To you, O LORD, I call,
for fire has devoured the open pastures
and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.

20Even the wild animals pant for you;
the streams of water have dried up
and fire has devoured the open pastures.

Topics: agriculture famine seed futility growth spring

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