True Joy

‘The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
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‘Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?’
—Joel 1:12 & 16