Wail! For the day of the Lord is near.(A)
It will come like destruction from the Almighty.(B)

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12 Cry out and wail, son of man,
for it is against My people.
It is against all the princes of Israel!
They are given over to the sword with My people.
Therefore strike your thigh in grief.(A)

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11 Be ashamed, you farmers,(A)
wail, you vinedressers,[a]
over the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:11 Or The farmers are dismayed, the vinedressers wail

13 Dress in sackcloth and lament,(A) you priests;(B)
wail,(C) you ministers of the altar.
Come and spend the night in sackcloth,(D)
you ministers of my God,
because grain and drink offerings
are withheld from the house of your God.

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