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Joel 1:10

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The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

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When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

For the waters of Nimrim are gone; the grass is dried up, the vegetation has disappeared, and there are no plants.

They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.

The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.

They will lay it waste. It will lie parched and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste. But no one living in it will pay any heed.

How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast, “God will not see what happens to us.”

Joy and gladness will disappear from the fruitful land of Moab. I will stop the flow of wine from the winepresses. No one will stomp on the grapes there and shout for joy. The shouts there will be shouts of soldiers, not the shouts of those making wine.

Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.

Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.

The vine has dried up; the fig tree languishes – the pomegranate, date, and apple as well. In fact, all the trees of the field have dried up. Indeed, the joy of the people has dried up!

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.

The Lord responded to his people, “Look! I am about to restore your grain as well as fresh wine and olive oil. You will be fully satisfied. I will never again make you an object of mockery among the nations.

Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce.’”

I am about to discipline your children and will spread offal on your faces, the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it.




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