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Joel  


1 : 1 The word of theLordthat came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:
1 : 2 Hear this,you elders;give ear,all inhabitants of the land!Has such a thing happened in your days,or in the days of your fathers?
1 : 3 Tell your children of it,and let your children tell their children,and their children to another generation.
1 : 4 Whatthe cutting locust left,the swarming locust has eaten.What the swarming locust left,the hopping locust has eaten,and what the hopping locust left,the destroying locust has eaten.
1 : 5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep,andwail, all you drinkers of wine,because ofthe sweet wine,for it is cut off from your mouth.
1 : 6 Fora nation has come up against my land,powerful and beyond number;its teeth are lions' teeth,and it has the fangs of a lioness.
1 : 7 It has laid waste my vineand splintered myfig tree;it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;their branches are made white.
1 : 8 Lament like a virginwearing sackclothfor the bridegroom of her youth.
1 : 9 The grain offering and the drink offering are cut offfrom the house of theLord.The priests mourn,the ministers of theLord.
1 : 10 The fields are destroyed,the ground mourns,becausethe grain is destroyed,the wine dries up,the oil languishes.
1 : 11 Be ashamed,O tillers of the soil;wail, O vinedressers,for the wheat and the barley,because the harvest of the field has perished.
1 : 12 The vine dries up;the fig tree languishes.Pomegranate, palm, and apple,all the trees of the field are dried up,andgladness dries upfrom the children of man.
1 : 13 Put on sackcloth and lament,O priests;wail, O ministers of the altar.Go in,pass the night in sackcloth,O ministers of my God!Because grain offering and drink offeringare withheld from the house of your God.
1 : 14 Consecrate a fast;call a solemn assembly.Gatherthe eldersandall the inhabitants of the landto the house of theLordyour God,and cry out to theLord.
1 : 15 Alas for the day!For the day of theLordis near,and as destruction from the Almightyit comes.
1 : 16 Is not the food cut offbefore our eyes,joy and gladnessfrom the house of our God?
1 : 17 The seed shrivels under the clods;the storehouses are desolate;the granaries are torn downbecausethe grain has dried up.
1 : 18 Howthe beasts groan!The herds of cattle are perplexedbecause there is no pasture for them;even the flocks of sheep suffer.
1 : 19 To you,OLord, I call.For fire has devouredthe pastures of the wilderness,and flame has burnedall the trees of the field.
1 : 20 Even the beasts of the fieldpant for youbecause the water brooks are dried up,and fire has devouredthe pastures of the wilderness.