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Atomic Bible
Joel 1:11
Be dismayed, O farmers,
from A Call to Mourning, Joel 1:8-12
What it says

Farmers and vinedressers are put to shame because wheat, barley, and the harvest of the field have perished.

What it is doing

This verse makes the economic pain of the judgment explicit.

In context

8Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, 9Grain and drink offerings have been cut off 10The field is ruined; 11Be dismayed, O farmers, 12The grapevine is dried up,