Jubilee2000 - Joel - 1

1:1  The word of the LORD that went to Joel the son of Pethuel.

1:2  Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the earth. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

1:3  Tell your sons of it, and [let] your sons [tell] their sons, and their sons another generation.

1:4  That which the palmerworm has left the locust has eaten; and that which the locust has left the cankerworm has eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left the caterpillar has eaten.

1:5  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.

1:6  For a people has come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he has the molars of a [great] lion.

1:7  He has laid my vine waste and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bare and cast [it] away; its branches are made white.

1:8  Lament like a young woman girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

1:9  The grain offering and the drink offering of the house of the LORD has perished; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

1:10  The field was destroyed, the land mourns; for the wheat was destroyed; the new wine was dried up, the oil perished.

1:11  Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is lost.

1:12  The vine has dried up, and the fig tree has perished; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, [even] all the trees of the field, have withered: therefore joy has withered away from the sons of men.

1:13  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 present and the drink offering is taken away from the house of your God.

1:14  Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the earth [into] the house of the LORD your God and cry unto the LORD.

1:15  Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

1:16  Is not the food cut off before our eyes, the joy and the gladness from the house of our God?

1:17  The seed has rotted under their clods, the storehouses were laid desolate, the barns were destroyed for the wheat is withered.

1:18  How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep are condemned.

1:19  O LORD, to thee will I cry for [the] fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and [the] flame has burned all the trees of the field.

1:20  The beasts of the field also cry unto thee for the rivers of waters are dried up, and [the] fire has devoured the meadows of the wilderness.: