Joel 1:19
To You, O LORD, I call,
What it says
Joel cries to the LORD because fire has consumed the wilderness pastures and flame has burned the trees.
What it is doing
This verse personalizes the chapter's communal grief in direct prophetic prayer.
In context
13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; 14Consecrate a fast; 15Alas for the day! 16Has not the food been cut off 17The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; 18How the cattle groan! 19To You, O LORD, I call, 20Even the beasts of the field pant for You,