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JOEL
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- He hath made it clean bare, and cast it away;
- The branches thereof are made white.
- Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
- The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord;
- The priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn.
- The field is wasted, the land mourneth;
- For the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
- Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers,
- For the wheat and for the barley;
- Because the harvest of the field is perished.
- The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth;
- The pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,
- Even all the trees of the field, are withered:
- Because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
- Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests:
- Howl, ye ministers of the altar:
- Come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God:
- For the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
- Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly,
- Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land
- Into the house of the Lord your God,
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