Joel 1:1-11 ▼

1 A word of YHWH that has been to Joel, son of Pethuel:

2 Hear this, you aged ones, || And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land, || Has this been in your days? Or in the days of your fathers?

3 Concerning it talk to your sons, || And your sons to their sons, || And their sons to another generation.

4 What is left of the palmer-worm, the locust has eaten, || And what is left of the locust, || The cankerworm has eaten, || And what is left of the cankerworm, || The caterpillar has eaten.

5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep, || And howl all drinking wine, because of the juice, || For it has been cut off from your mouth.

6 For a nation has come up on My land, || Strong, and there is no number, || Its teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, || And it has the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

7 It has made My vine become a desolation, || And My fig tree become a splinter, || It has made it thoroughly bare, and has cast down, || Its branches have been made white.

8 Wail, as a virgin girds with sackcloth, || For the husband of her youth.

9 Present and drink-offering have been cut off from the house of YHWH, || The priests have mourned, servants of YHWH.

10 The field is spoiled, || The ground has mourned, || For the grain is spoiled, || New wine has been dried up, oil languishes.

11 Be ashamed, you farmers, || Howl, vinedressers, for wheat and for barley, || For the harvest of the field has perished.