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Joel
1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son
of Pethuel.
An Invasion of Locusts
1:2 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?
1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell
their children, and their children another generation.
1:4 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.
1:5 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.
1:6 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.
1:7 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.
1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the
husband of her youth.
1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off
from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's
ministers, mourn.
1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn
is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
1:11 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.
1:12 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.
A Call to Lamentation
1:13 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.
1:14 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,
1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand,
and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
1:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and
gladness from the house of our God?
1:17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are
laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is
withered.
1:18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are
perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of
sheep are made desolate.
1:19 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.
1:20 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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