Joel - Chapter 1 | American Standard Version

  • 1. The word of Jehovah 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 in the days of your fathers?
  • 3. Tell ye your children of it, and {cf15i let} your children {cf15i tell} their children, and their children another generation.
  • 4. That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
  • 5. Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
  • 6. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.
  • 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 meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
  • 10. The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
  • 11. Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.
  • 12. The vine is withered, 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: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.
  • 13. Gird yourselves {cf15i with sackcloth}, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.
  • 14. Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men {cf15i and} all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
  • 15. Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
  • 16. Is not the food cut off before our eyes, {cf15i yea}, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
  • 17. The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain 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 Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
  • 20. Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
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