ABP - Joel - 1

1:1  The word of the lord which came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

1:2  Hear these things, O elders, and give ear all dwelling the land! Have [2taken place 1such things] in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

1:3  Concerning them, [2to 3your children 1describe], and your children to their children, and their children unto [2generation 1another]!

1:4  The things remaining of the caterpillar [3devoured 1the 2locust]; and the things remaining of the locust [3devoured 1the 2grasshopper]; and the things remaining of the grasshopper [3devoured 1the 2blight].

1:5  Sober up, O ones being intoxicated from their wine! Weep and wail all drinking the wine unto intoxication! for it was lifted away from your mouth.

1:6  For a nation ascended upon my land, one strong and innumerable. His teeth [2teeth 1are as lion's], and his molars as cubs.

1:7  He appointed my grapevine for extinction, and my fig-trees for a splinter. In searching he searched it, and tossed it down; he whitened its branches.

1:8  Wail to me more than a bride being girded with sackcloth for the husband of her virginity.

1:9  [4have been lifted away 1The sacrifice 2and 3the libation offering] from the house of the lord. Mourn, O priests! ministers of the lord,

1:10  for [3languish 1the 2plains]. Mourn, O earth, for [2languishes 1the grain]! [2was dried up 1the wine], [2lessened 1the olive oil].

1:11  [2were withered 1The farmers]. Wail for your possessions, for the wheat and barley; for [2he has destroyed 1the gathering of crops] from out of the field!

1:12  The grapevine was dried up, and the fig-trees were lessened; pomegranate, and palm, and apple and all the trees of the field were dried up; for [4shamed 5joy 1the 2sons 3of men].

1:13  Gird and beat yourselves, O priests! Wail, O ones ministering at the altar! Enter, sleep in sackcloths! O ones ministering to God. for [4are at a distance 5from 6the house 7of your God 1the sacrifice offering 2and 3libation offering].

1:14  Sanctify a fast! Proclaim a sacred service! Bring together elders! all the ones dwelling the land, into the house of the lord your God. And cry out to the lord fervently!

1:15  Woe, woe, woe for the day, for [4is near 1the 2day 3of the lord], and as misery from misery, it shall come.

1:16  Were not [3in front of 4your eyes 1foods 2lifted away]? from out of the house of your God gladness and joy?

1:17  [2leap 1Heifers] in their stables, [2are obliterated 1treasures], [2were razed 1wine vats], for [2was dried up 1the grain].

1:18  What shall we put aside for ourselves? [3weep 1The herds 2of oxen], for no [2exists 1pasture] to them; and the flocks of the sheep were obliterated.

1:19  To you, O lord, we shall yell. For fire consumed the beautiful things of the wilderness, and a flame incinerated all the trees of the field.

1:20  And the cattle of the plain look up to you, for [3were dried up 1the releases 2of waters], and fire devoured the beautiful things of the wilderness.