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Chapter 1
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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. |
4
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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. |
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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. |
8
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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the
husband of her youth. |
9
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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. |
10
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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, |
15
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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. |
18
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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 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. |
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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. |
