“The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple — all the trees of the orchard — are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.”
Joel 1:12 (BSB)
Context Reading
10The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. 11Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. 12The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple — all the trees of the orchard — are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up. 13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God. 14Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.