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JOE 01:01 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of
Pethuel.
JOE 01:02 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye
inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in
the days of your fathers?
JOE 01:03 Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children
[tell] their children, and their children another generation.
JOE 01:04 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust
eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm
eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the
caterpillar eaten.
JOE 01:05 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye
drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off
from your mouth.
JOE 01:06 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and
without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he
hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
JOE 01:07 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree:
he hath made it clean bare, and cast [it] away; the branches
thereof are made white.
JOE 01:08 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the
husband of her youth.
JOE 01:09 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off
from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers,
mourn.
JOE 01:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn
is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
JOE 01:11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye
vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the
harvest of the field is perished.
JOE 01:12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth;
the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,
[even] all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is
withered away from the sons of men.
JOE 01:13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye
ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye
ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink
offering is withholden from the house of your God.
JOE 01:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather
the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the land [into] the
house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.
JOE 01:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at
hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
JOE 01:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy
and gladness from the house of our God?
JOE 01:17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are
laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is
withered.
JOE 01:18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are
perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of
sheep are made desolate.
JOE 01:19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath
devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath
burned all the trees of the field.
JOE 01:20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the
rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the
pastures of the wilderness.
JOE 02:01 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my
holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for
the day of the LORD cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand;
JOE 02:02 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds
and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains:
a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like,
neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many
generations.
JOE 02:03 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame
burneth: the land [is] as the garden of Eden before them, and
behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape
them.
JOE 02:04 The appearance of them [is] as the appearance of
horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
JOE 02:05 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains
shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that
devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
JOE 02:06 Before their face the people shall be much pained:
all faces shall gather blackness.
JOE 02:07 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the
wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways,
and they shall not break their ranks:
JOE 02:08 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk
every one in his path: and [when] they fall upon the sword, they
shall not be wounded.
JOE 02:09 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run
upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall
enter in at the windows like a thief.
JOE 02:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall
tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall
withdraw their shining:
JOE 02:11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army:
for his camp [is] very great: for [he is] strong that executeth
his word: for the day of the LORD [is] great and very terrible;
and who can abide it?
JOE 02:12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye [even] to
me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and
with mourning:
JOE 02:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn
unto the LORD your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow
to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
JOE 02:14 Who knoweth [if] he will return and repent, and leave
a blessing behind him; [even] a meat offering and a drink
offering unto the LORD your God?
JOE 02:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a
solemn assembly:
JOE 02:16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation,
assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck
the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the
bride out of her closet.
JOE 02:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep
between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy
people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that
the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say
among the people, Where [is] their God?
JOE 02:18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity
his people.
JOE 02:19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people,
Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be
satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach
among the heathen:
JOE 02:20 But I will remove far off from you the northern
[army], and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with
his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the
utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour
shall come up, because he hath done great things.
JOE 02:21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD
will do great things.
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