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Joel 1:12

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The vines have become dry, and the fig tree is dying. All the trees in the field— the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple—have withered. And happiness among the people has died.

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People still ask for wine in the marketplaces, but all the joy is gone. It was carried off with everything else.

There will be no joy and happiness in the orchard. I will end the happy singing and shouting in the vineyard. The grapes are ready to make wine, but they will all be ruined.

Our food is gone. Joy and happiness are gone from the Temple of our God.

The fields are ruined. Even the ground is crying because the grain is destroyed; the new wine is dried up, and the olive oil is gone.

My lover, among other men, you are an apple tree among the wild trees in the forest! I enjoy sitting in my lover’s shadow; his fruit is so sweet to my taste.

Your seed for planting is still in the barn. And look at the vines, the fig trees, and the pomegranate and olive trees. They have not yet produced any fruit. But beginning today, I will bless you.’”

Joy and happiness are gone from the large vineyards of Moab. I stopped the flow of wine from the winepresses. There is no singing and dancing from people walking on the grapes to make wine. There are no shouts of joy.

Listen to the cries from Horonaim. They are cries of much confusion and destruction.

God, you will make the nation grow, and you will make the people happy. They will rejoice in your presence as they do at harvest time. It will be like the joy when people take their share of things they have won in war.

Your limbs are like a garden filled with pomegranates and other pleasant fruit, with all the best spices: henna,

Good people are like budding palm trees. They grow strong like the cedar trees of Lebanon.

But you have made me happier than they will ever be with all their wine and grain.

Then the men went to Eshcol Valley. There they cut off a branch from a grapevine that had a bunch of grapes on it. They put that branch on a pole, and two men carried it between them. They also carried some pomegranates and figs.

The grapevines are dying. The new wine is bad. People who were happy are now sad.

The next morning, God sent a worm to eat part of the plant. The worm began eating the plant, and the plant died.

I will not let pests destroy your crops. All your grapevines will produce grapes.” This is what the Lord All-Powerful said.




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