| 1 The word of Jehovah 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 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 palmer-worm hath left hath
the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm
eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine,
because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a
nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the
teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness. 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 meal-offering and the
drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's
ministers, mourn. 10 The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the
grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. 11 Be
confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for
the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished. 12 The vine is
withered, 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: for
joy is withered away from the sons of men. 13 Gird yourselves with
sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come,
lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and
the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God. 14 Sanctify
a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men and all the
inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto
Jehovah. 15 Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as
destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 16 Is not the food cut off
before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the
barns are broken down; for the grain 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 Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for
the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath
burned all the trees of the field. 20 Yea, the beasts of the field pant
unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the
pastures of the wilderness.
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