| 1: The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
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| 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?
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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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| 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. |
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| 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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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 8: Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of
her youth. |
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| 9: 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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| 10: 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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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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, |
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| 15: 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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| 16: Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and
gladness from the house of our God? |
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| 17: 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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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
