12. The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered;the pomegranate, the date palm, and the apple —all the trees of the orchard — have withered.Indeed, human joy has dried up.
13. Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar.Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God,because grain and drink offeringsare withheld from the house of your God.
14. Announce a sacred fast; proclaim an assembly!Gather the elders and all the residents of the landat the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.
15. Woe because of that day! For the Day of the Lord is nearand will come as devastation from the Almighty.
16. Hasn’t the food been cut offbefore our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17. The seeds lie shriveled in their casings. The storehouses are in ruin,and the granaries are broken down,because the grain has withered away.