Joel 1

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(Joe 1:1) The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
(Joe 1:2) Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
(Joe 1:3) Tell ye your children of it, and {let} your children {tell} their children, and their children another generation.
(Joe 1:4) That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
(Joe 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.
(Joe 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 hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
(Joe 1:7) 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.
(Joe 1:8) Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
(Joe 1:9) The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn.
(Joe 1:10) The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
(Joe 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 perished.
(Joe 1:12) The vine is dried up, 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: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
(Joe 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 meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
(Joe 1:14) Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders {and} all the inhabitants of the land {into} the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,
(Joe 1:15) Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord {is} at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
(Joe 1:16) Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, {yea}, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
(Joe 1:17) The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
(Joe 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.
(Joe 1:19) O Lord, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
(Joe 1:20) The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
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