Joel 1:1-20 MEV

[1] The word of the LORD, which came to Joel, son of Pethuel. [2] Hear this, elders, and give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has anything like this happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? [3] Tell it to your children, and let your children tell their children, and let their children tell another generation. [4] What the fledging locust left, the adult locust has eaten; what the adult locust left, the larval locust has eaten; what the larval locust left, the hopper locust has eaten. [5] Awaken, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all wine-drinkers, because the sweet wine has been cut off from your lips. [6] For a nation powerful and innumerable has invaded my land; its teeth are like the teeth of a lion, like the fangs of a lioness. [7] It has despoiled my vine, and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off its bark and cast it away, leaving its branches white. [8] Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the husband of her youth. [9] The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests mourn, who are ministers to the LORD. [10] The field is ravaged, the ground mourns; for the grain is ruined, the new wine is dried up, and the oil dwindles. [11] Despair, fieldworkers; wail, vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. [12] The vine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; pomegranate, palm, and apple- all the trees of the field are dry; surely joy has withered away from the sons of men. [13] Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God, because the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. [14] Consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly, assemble the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. [15] Alas, for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and like devastation from the Almighty it comes. [16] Has not the food been cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? [17] The seeds have shriveled under their shovels, the storehouses have been deserted; the granaries have been torn down, because the grain has dried up. [18] How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are confused, because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep suffer. [19] To You, O LORD, I call, because fire has devoured the wild pastures, and flame has burned all the trees of the field. [20] Even the beasts of the field long for You, because the streams of water have dried up, and fire has devoured the wild pastures.