Joel 1:2-12
New King James Version
The Land Laid Waste(A)
2 Hear this, you elders,
And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land!
(B)Has anything like this happened in your days,
Or even in the days of your fathers?
3 (C)Tell your children about it,
Let your children tell their children,
And their children another generation.
4 (D)What the chewing [a]locust left, the (E)swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
5 Awake, you (F)drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
(G)For it has been cut off from your mouth.
6 For (H)a nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
(I)His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a [b]fierce lion.
7 He has (J)laid waste My vine,
And [c]ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.
8 (K)Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For (L)the husband of her youth.
9 (M)The grain offering and the drink offering
Have been cut off from the house of the Lord;
The priests (N)mourn, who minister to the Lord.
10 The field is wasted,
(O)The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
(P)The new wine is dried up,
The oil fails.
11 (Q)Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 (R)The vine has dried up,
And the fig tree has withered;
The pomegranate tree,
The palm tree also,
And the apple tree—
All the trees of the field are withered;
Surely (S)joy has withered away from the sons of men.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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