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Joel 1
1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants
of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your
fathers?
3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell
their children, and their children another generation.
4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust
eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten;
and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers
of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without
number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth
of a great lion.
7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he
hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made
white.
8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the
husband of her youth.
9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from
the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is
wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers,
for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is
perished.
12 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.
13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye
ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers
of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden
from the house of your God.
14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the
elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD
your God, and cry unto the LORD,
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand,
and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and
gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are
laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are
perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are
made desolate.
19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured
the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees
of the field.
20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the
rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures
of the wilderness.
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