“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.” (Joel 1:1-20 AV)
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