Joel 1:2-12
American Standard Version
2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers? 3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. 4 That which [a]the palmer-worm hath left hath [b]the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath [c]the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath [d]the caterpillar eaten.
5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness. 7 He hath laid my vine waste, and [e]barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it [f]away; the branches thereof are made white.
8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9 The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn. 10 The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is [g]dried up, the oil languisheth. 11 [h]Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished. 12 The vine is [i]withered, 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: for joy is [j]withered away from the sons of men.
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- Joel 1:4 Probably, different kinds of locusts, or locusts in different stages of growth.
- Joel 1:4 Probably, different kinds of locusts, or locusts in different stages of growth.
- Joel 1:4 Probably, different kinds of locusts, or locusts in different stages of growth.
- Joel 1:4 Probably, different kinds of locusts, or locusts in different stages of growth.
- Joel 1:7 Or, broken
- Joel 1:7 Or, down
- Joel 1:10 Or, ashamed
- Joel 1:11 Or, The husbandmen are confounded, the vinedressers wail
- Joel 1:12 Or, ashamed
- Joel 1:12 Or, ashamed
Joel 1:2-12
New International Version
An Invasion of Locusts
2 Hear this,(A) you elders;(B)
listen, all who live in the land.(C)
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
or in the days of your ancestors?(D)
3 Tell it to your children,(E)
and let your children tell it to their children,
and their children to the next generation.(F)
4 What the locust(G) 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(H)
other locusts[a] have eaten.(I)
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
Wail, all you drinkers of wine;(J)
wail because of the new wine,
for it has been snatched(K) from your lips.
6 A nation has invaded my land,
a mighty army without number;(L)
it has the teeth(M) of a lion,
the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has laid waste(N) my vines
and ruined my fig trees.(O)
It has stripped off their bark
and thrown it away,
leaving their branches white.
8 Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth(P)
grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
9 Grain offerings and drink offerings(Q)
are cut off from the house of the Lord.
The priests are in mourning,(R)
those who minister before the Lord.
10 The fields are ruined,
the ground is dried up;(S)
the grain is destroyed,
the new wine(T) is dried up,
the olive oil fails.(U)
11 Despair, you farmers,(V)
wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,(W)
because the harvest of the field is destroyed.(X)
12 The vine is dried up
and the fig tree is withered;(Y)
the pomegranate,(Z) the palm and the apple[b] tree—
all the trees of the field—are dried up.(AA)
Surely the people’s joy
is withered away.
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