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Chapter 1 |
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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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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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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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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| 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. |
