[1:13] Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
[1:14] Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.
[1:15] Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
[1:16] Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
[1:17] The seed shrivels under the clods; the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are torn down because the grain has dried up.
[1:18] How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer.
[1:19] To you, O Lord, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.
[1:20] Even the beasts of the field pant for you because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.