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- Joel 1 -
JOEL
CHAPTER 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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