Joel 1:8-10

Contemporary English Version

⁸ Grieve like a young woman
mourning for the man
    she was to marry.
⁹ Offerings of grain and wine
are no longer brought
    to the Lord's temple.
His servants, the priests,
    are deep in sorrow.
¹⁰ Barren fields mourn;
grain, grapes, and olives
    are scorched and shriveled.