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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions’ teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7It has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The vine dries up; the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The seed shrivels under the clods; the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are torn down because the grain has dried up. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19To you, O LORD, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Even the beasts of the field pant for you because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. |
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