14. Solemnize a fast! Call an assembly! Gather the elders, all of the inhabitants of the land in the house of Yahweh your God, and cry out to Yahweh.
15. Ah! For the day! For the day of Yahweh is near. It will come like destruction from Shaddai.
16. Is not food cut off before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness?
17. The seeds shrivel under their clods; the storehouses are desolate. The grain storage places are destroyed because grain has dried out.
18. How the beasts groan; the herds of cattle wander around because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep are in distress.
19. To you, O Yahweh, I cry out, because fire has devoured the pastures of the desert, and flames burned all the trees of the field.
20. Also, the beasts of the field long for you, because the courses of water are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the desert.