Joel
1:1 The word of YASHUWAH that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
Joel
1:2 Hear this, you* old men, and give ear, all you* inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your* days, or even in the days of your* fathers?
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1:3 Tell you* your* children of it, and let your* children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Joel
1:4 That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust has left has the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left has the caterpiller eaten.
Joel
1:5 Awake, you* drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you* drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your* mouth.
Joel
1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.
Joel
1:7 He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bore, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Joel
1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Joel
1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of YASHUWAH; the priests, YASHUWAH's ministers, mourn.
Joel
1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
Joel
1:11 Be you* ashamed, O you* husbandmen; howl, O you* vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
Joel
1:12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; 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.
Joel
1:13 Gird yourselves*, and lament, you* priests: howl, you* ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you* ministers of my Elohim: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your* Elohim.
Joel
1:14 Sanctify you* a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of YASHUWAH your* Elohim, and cry unto YASHUWAH.
Joel
1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of YASHUWAH is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Joel
1:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our Elohim?
Joel
1:17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Joel
1:18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
Joel
1:19 O YASHUWAH, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
Joel
1:20 The beasts of the field cry also unto you: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
