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