11  The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel .

 12  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 .

 13  Tell ye your children of it and let your children tell 
their children and their children another generation .

 14  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 .

 15  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 .

 16  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 .

 17  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 .

 18  Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband 
of her youth .

 19  The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from 
the house of the LORD the priests the LORD'S ministers mourn .

 110  The field is wasted the land mourneth for the corn is 
wasted the new wine is dried up the oil languisheth .

 111  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 .

 112  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 .

 113  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 .

 114  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 .

 115  Alas for the day for the day of the LORD is at hand and as 
a destruction from the Almighty shall it come .

 116  Is not the meat cut off before our eyes yea joy and 
gladness from the house of our God .

 117  The seed is rotten under their clods the garners are laid 
desolate the barns are broken down for the corn is withered .

 118  How do the beasts groan the herds of cattle are perplexed 
because they have no pasture yea the flocks of sheep are made 
desolate .

 119  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 .

 120  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 .

* 21  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 .

 22  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 
.

 23  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 .

 24  The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses and 
as horsemen so shall they run .

 25  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 .

 26  Before their face the people shall be much pained all faces 
shall gather blackness .

 27  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 .

 28  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 .

 29  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 .

 210  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 .

 211  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 .

 212  Therefore also now saith the LORD turn ye even to me with 
all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with 
mourning .

 213  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 .

 214  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 .

 215  Blow the trumpet in Zion sanctify a fast call a solemn 
assembly .

 216  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 .

 217  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 .

 218  Then will the LORD be jealous for his land and pity his 
people .

 219  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 .

 220  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 .

 221  Fear not O land be glad and rejoice for the LORD will do 
great things .

 222  Be not afraid ye beasts of the field for the pastures of 
the wilderness do spring for the tree beareth her fruit the fig 
tree and the vine do yield their strength .

 223  Be glad then ye children of Zion and rejoice in the LORD 
your God for he hath given you the former rain moderately and he 
will cause to come down for you the rain the former rain and the 
latter rain in the first month .

 224  And the floors shall be full of wheat and the vats shall 
overflow with wine and oil .

 225  And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath 
eaten the cankerworm and the caterpillar and the palmerworm my 
great army which I sent among you .

 226  And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the 
name of the LORD your God that hath dealt wondrously with you 
and my people shall never be ashamed .

 227  And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and 
that I am the LORD your God and none else and my people shall 
never be ashamed .

 228  And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out 
my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall 
prophesy your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall 
see visions .

 229  And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those 
days will I pour out my spirit .

 230  And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth 
blood and fire and pillars of smoke .

 231  The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into 
blood before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come .

 232  And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the 
name of the LORD shall be delivered for in mount Zion and in 
Jerusalem shall be deliverance as the LORD hath said and in the 
remnant whom the LORD shall call .

* 31  For behold in those days and in that time when I shall 
bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem .

 32  I will also gather all nations and will bring them down 
into the valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there 
for my people and for my heritage Israel whom they have 
scattered among the nations and parted my land .

 33  And they have cast lots for my people and have given a boy 
for an harlot and sold a girl for wine that they might drink .

 34  Yea and what have ye to do with me O Tyre and Zidon and all 
the coasts of Palestine will ye render me a recompense and if ye 
recompense me swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense 
upon your own head .

 35  Because ye have taken my silver and my gold and have 
carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things .

 36  The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem 
have ye sold unto the Grecians that ye might remove them far 
from their border .

 37  Behold I will raise them out of the place whither ye have 
sold them and will return your recompense upon your own head .

 38  And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand 
of the children of Judah and they shall sell them to the Sabeans 
to a people far off for the LORD hath spoken it .

 39  Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles Prepare war wake up the 
mighty men let all the men of war draw near let them come up .

 310  Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks 
into spears let the weak say I am strong .

 311  Assemble yourselves and come all ye heathen and gather 
yourselves together round about thither cause thy mighty ones to 
come down O LORD .

 312  Let the heathen be wakened and come up to the valley of 
Jehoshaphat for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round 
about .

 313  Put ye in the sickle for the harvest is ripe come get you 
down for the press is full the vats overflow for their 
wickedness is great .

 314  Multitudes multitudes in the valley of decision for the 
day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision .

 315  The sun and the moon shall be darkened and the stars shall 
withdraw their shining .

 316  The LORD also shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice 
from Jerusalem and the heavens and the earth shall shake but the 
LORD will be the hope of his people and the strength of the 
children of Israel .

 317  So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in 
Zion my holy mountain then shall Jerusalem be holy and there 
shall no strangers pass through her any more .

 318  And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains 
shall drop down new wine and the hills shall flow with milk and 
all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters and a fountain 
shall come forth of the house of the LORD and shall water the 
valley of Shittim .

 319  Egypt shall be a desolation and Edom shall be a desolate 
wilderness for the violence against the children of Judah 
because they have shed innocent blood in their land .

 320  But Judah shall dwell for ever and Jerusalem from 
generation to generation .

 321  For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed 
for the LORD dwelleth in Zion .

  

 

~~~~~~