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1 The LORD gave this message to Joel son of Pethuel. The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
2 Hear this, you leaders of the people. Listen, all who live in the land. In all your history, has anything like this happened before? Hear 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? Hear 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 Tell your children about it in the years to come, and let your children tell their children. Pass the story down from generation to generation. Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation. Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
4 After the cutting locusts finished eating the crops, the swarming locusts took what was left! After them came the hopping locusts, and then the stripping locusts, too! What 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. What 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 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine-drinkers! All the grapes are ruined, and all your sweet wine is gone. Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. Wake 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 A vast army of locusts has invaded my land, a terrible army too numerous to count. Its teeth are like lions’ teeth, its fangs like those of a lioness. For 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. A nation has invaded my land, a mighty army without number; it has the teeth of a lion, the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has destroyed my grapevines and ruined my fig trees, stripping their bark and destroying it, leaving the branches white and bare. It 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. It 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 Weep like a bride dressed in black, mourning the death of her husband. Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth. Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
9 For there is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of the LORD. So the priests are in mourning. The ministers of the LORD are weeping. The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD. Grain 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 The fields are ruined, the land is stripped bare. The grain is destroyed, the grapes have shriveled, and the olive oil is gone. The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes. The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails.
11 Despair, all you farmers! Wail, all you vine growers! Weep, because the wheat and barley— all the crops of the field—are ruined. Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
12 The grapevines have dried up, and the fig trees have withered. The pomegranate trees, palm trees, and apple trees— all the fruit trees—have dried up. And the people’s joy has dried up with them. The 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. The 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 Dress yourselves in burlap and weep, you priests! Wail, you who serve before the altar! Come, spend the night in burlap, you ministers of my God. For there is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of your God. Put 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. Put 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 Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Bring the leaders and all the people of the land into the Temple of the LORD your God, and cry out to him there. Consecrate 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. Declare 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 The day of the LORD is near, the day when destruction comes from the Almighty. How terrible that day will be! Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes. Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
16 Our food disappears before our very eyes. No joyful celebrations are held in the house of our God. Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seeds die in the parched ground, and the grain crops fail. The barns stand empty, and granaries are abandoned. The seed shrivels under the clods; the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are torn down because the grain has dried up. The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.
18 How the animals moan with hunger! The herds of cattle wander about confused, because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep and goats bleat in misery. How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer. How the cattle moan! The herds mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
19 LORD, help us! The fire has consumed the wilderness pastures, and flames have burned up all the trees. To you, O LORD, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field. To 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 Even the wild animals cry out to you because the streams have dried up, and fire has consumed the wilderness pastures. Even the beasts of the field pant for you because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. Even 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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