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8 Wail as the virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9 The gift was cut off and the libation from the house of Jehovah; mourn, ye priests serving Jehovah. 10 The field was laid waste, the land mourned; for the grain was laid waste, the new wine was dried up, the new oil languished. 11 The husbandmen were ashamed; wail, ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field perished. 12 The vine was dried up, and the fig tree languished; the pomegranate, also the palm tree and the apple tree; all the trees of the field were dried up, for joy was dried up from the sons of man. 13 Be ye girded and lament, ye priests: wail, ye, serving the altar: come in, pass the night in sackcloth, ye serving God: for the gift and the libation were withheld from the house of your God. Joel 1:8-13, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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