I.
The introductory word
1:1
Joel 1
:1
1:1
The word of Jehovah which came to
1Joel the son of Pethuel.
II.
The plague of the locusts (the nations)
1:2—2:11
Joel 1
:2
1:2
1Hear this, you elders,
And give heed, all you inhabitants of the land.
Has this ever
ever in your days,
Or even in the days of your fathers?
Joel 1
:3
1:3
Tell your children about it,
And
let your children
tell their children,
And
let their children
tell the next generation.
Joel 1
:4
1:4
What the
1cutting alocust has left, the swarming locust has eaten;
And what the swarming locust has left, the licking locust has eaten;
And what the licking locust has left, the consuming locust has eaten.
Joel 1
:5
1:5
Awake, drunkards, and weep;
Howl, all you who drink wine,
Because of the fresh wine;
For it has been cut off from your mouth.
Joel 1
:6
1:6
For a
1anation has come up against My land,
Mighty and without number;
Its
bteeth are the teeth of a lion,
And it has the cutting teeth of a lioness.
Joel 1
:7
1:7
It has made My
avine a desolation,
And My
bfig tree a heap of splinters.
It has stripped it bare and cast
it away;
Its branches are white.
Joel 1
:8
1:8
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth
Over the husband of her youth.
Joel 1
:9
1:9
The ameal offering and the drink offering are cut off
From the house of Jehovah;
The priests, the ministers of Jehovah, mourn.
Joel 1
:10
1:10
The field is a waste;
The land mourns,
For the grain is a waste;
The new wine is dried up;
The fresh oil languishes.
Joel 1
:11
1:11
Be ashamed, O farmers;
Howl, O vinedressers,
For the wheat and for the barley,
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
Joel 1
:12
1:12
The vine is dried up,
And the fig tree languishes,
The pomegranate and the palm and the apple tree —
All the trees of the field are dried up;
Indeed gladness has withered away
From the children of men.
Joel 1
:13
1:13
Gird yourselves and lament, O priests;
Howl, O ministers of the altar.
Come, pass the night in
asackcloth,
O ministers of my God.
For the meal offering and the drink offering
Are held back from the house of your God.
Joel 1
:14
1:14
Sanctify a
afast;
Call a solemn assembly;
Gather the elders
And all the inhabitants of the land
To the house of Jehovah your God;
And cry unto Jehovah.
Joel 1
:15
1:15
Alas for the day!
For the
1aday of Jehovah has drawn near,
And as the destruction from the Almighty it will come.
Joel 1
:16
1:16
Is not
our food
Cut off before our eyes,
Joy and exultation
From the house of our God?
Joel 1
:17
1:17
The seeds have shriveled
Under their
1clods;
The storehouses have been desolated;
The barns have been torn down;
For the grain is dried up.
Joel 1
:18
1:18
How the beasts groan!
The herds of cattle are confused,
For they have no pasture;
The flocks of sheep also suffer punishment.
Joel 1
:19
1:19
To You, O Jehovah, I cry out;
For
afire has devoured
The pastures of the wilderness,
And the flame has set ablaze
All the trees of the field.
Joel 1
:20
1:20
The beasts of the field also
Cry to You,
For the waterways
Are dried up,
And fire has devoured
The pastures of the wilderness.
