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Joel 1:18

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The animals are hungry and groaning. The herds of cattle wander around confused because they have no grass to eat. The sheep are dying.

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So the country is like someone crying for the dead, and all of its people are weak. Even the animals of the field, the birds of the sky, and the fish in the sea are dying.

How much longer will the land be dry? How long will the grass be dry and dead? The birds and the animals of this land have all died, and it is the fault of the wicked. But they are saying, “Jeremiah will not live long enough to see what happens to us.”

We know that everything God made has been waiting until now in pain like a woman ready to give birth to a child.

Wild animals also need your help. The streams are dry—there is no water! Fire has changed our green fields into a desert.

King Ahab said to Obadiah, “Come with me. We will look at every spring and every stream in the land. We will see if we can find enough grass to keep our horses and mules alive. Then we will not have to kill our animals.”

King Solomon and all Israel met together before the Box of the Agreement and sacrificed so many sheep and cattle that no one was able to count them all.

Amos said, “The Lord will shout like a lion in Zion. His loud voice will roar from Jerusalem. The green pastures of the shepherds will turn brown and die. Even Mount Carmel will become dry.”

Figs might not grow on the fig trees, and grapes might not grow on the vines. Olives might not grow on the olive trees, and food might not grow in the fields. There might not be any sheep in the pens or cattle in the barns.

That is why the sky holds back its dew and why the earth holds back its crops.




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