World English Bible
Joel 1:7
“He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.”
Verse in context — Joel 1
5
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
6
For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
7
He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
8
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
9
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.