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| Joel 1:1 | The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. |
| Joel 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? |
| Joel 1:3 | Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. |
| Joel 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 caterpillar eaten. |
| Joel 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. |
| Joel 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. |
| Joel 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. |
| Joel 1:8 | Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. |
| Joel 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. |
| Joel 1:10 | The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. |
| Joel 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. |
| Joel 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. |
| Joel 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. |
| Joel 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. |
| Joel 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. |
| Joel 1:16 | Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? |
| Joel 1:17 | The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. |
| Joel 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. |
| Joel 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. |
| Joel 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. |
| Joel 2:1 | Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; |
| Joel 2:2 | A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. |
| Joel 2:3 | A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. |
| Joel 2:4 | The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. |
| Joel 2:5 | Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. |
| Joel 2:6 | Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. |
| Joel 2:7 | They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: |
| Joel 2:8 | Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. |
| Joel 2:9 | They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. |
| Joel 2:10 | The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: |
| Joel 2:11 | And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? |
| Joel 2:12 | Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: |
| Joel 2:13 | And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. |
| Joel 2:14 | Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God? |
| Joel 2:15 | Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: |
| Joel 2:16 | Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. |
| Joel 2:17 | Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? |
| Joel 2:18 | Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. |