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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This message from the LORD came to Pethuel's son Joel. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Hear this, you elders! Listen, all of you residents of the land! Has there ever been anything like this during your lifetime, or even when your ancestors were alive? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Pass it on to your children, and from your children to their children, and from their children to the following generation. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Whatever the devouring locust left behind the locust swarm has consumed! Whatever the locust swarm has left behind, the young locust has consumed! Whatever the young locust has left behind, the ravaging locust has consumed!" |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Wake up, you drunkards! Cry aloud and howl, you wine drinkers, because your supply of new wine has been snatched from you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Indeed, a nation has invaded my land— it is strong and its population is too large to count — with teeth like a lion and fangs like a lioness. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7That nation laid waste my vines, and stripped bare my fig tree, discarding it. It stripped off its bark. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Grieve like a virgin, who, dressed in her mourner's clothes, cries out in memory of the man she was going to marry. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Both grain offering and wine offering have been removed from the LORD's Temple; the priests and ministering servants of the LORD are mourning." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"The fields lie in ruins and the ground is dried up. Indeed, the grain is ruined, the new wine has evaporated, and the olive oil has run out. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Be dismayed, you farmers! Cry aloud, you vintners, for the wheat and barley, because the harvest in your fields has been lost. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The grapevine is shriveled and the fig tree is withered, along with the pomegranate tree, the palm tree, the apple tree and all of the cultivated trees. Truly, joy has evaporated from Adam's children." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Put on your mourning clothes, you priests; and cry aloud, you ministering servants at the altar! Come! Stay the night in mourner's clothes, you ministers of my God, because the grain offering and the wine offering is held back from the Temple of your God. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Set apart time for a fast! Call a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and everyone living in the land to the Temple of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD!" |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Oh, no! For the Day of the LORD approaches, and like destruction from the Almighty, it will come! |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Isn't our food supply cut off right in front of us, along with joy and gladness from the Temple of our God? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Seeds shrivel within their furrows, the storehouses lie empty, and granaries stand in ruins because the grain has withered. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Oh, how the livestock groan! The herds of cattle wander about because they have no pasture. Even flocks of sheep suffer! |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19To you, LORD, I cry out, because fire has devoured the open pastures, and has set all the cultivated trees ablaze. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The livestock also cries out to you, because their water sources have evaporated and because fire has consumed the open pastures. |
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