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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6A nation has invaded my land, a mighty army without number; it has the teeth of a lion, the fangs of a lioness. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree-- all the trees of the field--are dried up. Surely the people's joy is withered away. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in 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 that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes-- joy and gladness from the house of our God? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18How the cattle moan! The herds mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19To you, LORD, I call, for fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness and flames have burned up all the trees of the field. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness. |
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