1:12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

1:13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

1:14Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

1:15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

1:16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

1:17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.