| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 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, O elders, And listen, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days Or in your fathers' days? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Tell your sons about it, And let your sons tell their sons, And their sons the next generation. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Awake, drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you wine drinkers, On account of the sweet wine That is cut off from your mouth. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For a nation has invaded my land, Mighty and without number; Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it has the fangs of a lioness. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7It has made my vine a waste And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Wail like a virgin girded with 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 field is ruined, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine dries up, Fresh oil fails. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Be ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field is destroyed. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The vine dries up And the fig tree fails; The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree, All the trees of the field dry up. Indeed, rejoicing dries up From the sons of men. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Gird yourselves with sackcloth And lament, O priests; Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth O ministers of my God, For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Consecrate a fast, Proclaim 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 it will come as destruction from the Almighty. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Has not food been cut off before our eyes, Gladness and joy from the house of our God? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The seeds shrivel under their clods; The storehouses are desolate, The barns are torn down, For the grain is dried up. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle wander aimlessly 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 cry; For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Even the beasts of the field pant for You; For the water brooks are dried up And fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. |
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