Book of Joel, Chapter 1
Chapter 1 of Joel
give ear, all inhabitants of the land!
Has such a thing happened in your days,
or in the days of your fathers?
and let your children tell their children,
and their children another generation.
the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
the destroying locust has eaten.
and wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
powerful and without number;
its teeth are lions’ teeth,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
and splintered my fig trees;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
their branches are made white.
for the bridegroom of her youth.
from the house of the LORD.
The priests mourn,
the ministers of the LORD.
the ground mourns;
because the grain is destroyed,
the wine fails,
the oil languishes.
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley;
because the harvest of the field has perished.
the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are withered;
and gladness fails
from the sons of men.
wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, pass the night in sackcloth,
O ministers of my God!
Because cereal offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.
call a solemn assembly.
Gather the elders
and all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the LORD your God;
and cry to the LORD.
For the day of the LORD is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
before our eyes,
joy and gladness
from the house of our God?
the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are ruined
because the grain has failed.
The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
even the flocks of sheep are dismayed.
For fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness,
and flame has burned
all the trees of the field.
because the water brooks are dried up,
and fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.FOOTNOTES
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