以下是耶和华对毗土珥的儿子约珥所说的话。

严重的蝗灾

长老们啊,请听我说!
地上的所有居民啊,要留心听!
在你们或你们祖先的时代可曾发生过这样的事?
要把这事告诉你们的子子孙孙,
传到世世代代!

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Mourning and Repentance in Judea

Chapter 1

The Countryside Is Ravaged.[a] This is the word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:

Hear this, you elders!
    Listen to me, all you inhabitants of the land!
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
    or in the days of your ancestors?
Tell your children about it,
    and let them relate it to their children,
    and their children to the next generation.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:1 The prophet convokes the ancients, the chiefs of the villages. In some harrowing images, he evokes the disaster without compare: an invasion of locusts, which wreaks more devastation than an invasion by an army.