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The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
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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?
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Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children,
and their children another generation.
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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.
1:5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because
of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
(1:5) "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."
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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 hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
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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.
1:8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
(1:8) "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 ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye 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, 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.
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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,
1:15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at
hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
(1:15) "The day of the LORD is at
hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come."
(1:18-20) The animals are perplexed and cry out to God after he torments
them by burning their food and drying up the rivers.
(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) "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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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.
1:18How 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 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.
1:20The 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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