| Joel 1:1 |
The word of Jehovah which came to Joel the son of Pethuel. |
| Joel 1:2 |
Hear this, you elders, / And give heed, all you inhabitants of the land. / Has this [ever] happened in your days, / Or even in the days of your fathers? |
| Joel 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 |
What the cutting locust 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 |
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 |
For a nation has come up against My land, / Mighty and without number; / Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, / And it has the cutting teeth of a lioness. |
| Joel 1:7 |
It has made My vine a desolation, / And My fig tree a heap of splinters. / It has stripped it bare and cast [it] away; / Its branches are white. |
| Joel 1:8 |
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth / Over the husband of her youth. |
| Joel 1:9 |
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off / From the house of Jehovah; / The priests, the ministers of Jehovah, mourn. |
| Joel 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 |
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 |
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 |
Gird yourselves and lament, O priests; / Howl, O ministers of the altar. / Come, pass the night in sackcloth, / 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 |
Sanctify a fast; / 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 |
Alas for the day! / For the day of Jehovah has drawn near, / And as the destruction from the Almighty it will come. |
| Joel 1:16 |
Is not [our] food / Cut off before our eyes, / Joy and exultation / From the house of our God? |
| Joel 1:17 |
The seeds have shriveled / Under their clods; / The storehouses have been desolated; / The barns have been torn down; / For the grain is dried up. |
| Joel 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 |
To You, O Jehovah, I cry out; / For fire has devoured / The pastures of the wilderness, / And the flame has set ablaze / All the trees of the field. |
| Joel 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. |