Bible, King James Version
Joel
Joel.1
[1] The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of
Pethuel.
[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?
[3] Tell ye your children of it, and let your children
tell their children, and their children another generation.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[8] Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the
husband of her youth.
[9] The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off
from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers,
mourn.
[10] The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn
is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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,
[15] Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand,
and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
[16] Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and
gladness from the house of our God?
[17] The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are
laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is
withered.
[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.
[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.
[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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