Joel 1:2-12
Christian Standard Bible
A Plague of Locusts
2 Hear this,(A) you elders;
listen, all you inhabitants of the land.
Has anything like this ever happened in your days(B)
or in the days of your ancestors?
3 Tell your children about it,(C)
and let your children tell their children,
and their children the next generation.
4 What the devouring locust(D) has left,
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust has left,
the young locust(E) has eaten;
and what the young locust has left,
the destroying locust(F) has eaten.
5 Wake up, you drunkards,(G) and weep;
wail, all you wine drinkers,
because of the sweet wine,
for it has been taken from your mouth.
6 For a nation has invaded my land,(H)
powerful and without number;
its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.(I)
7 It has devastated my grapevine
and splintered my fig tree.
It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away;
its branches have turned white.
8 Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth,(J)
mourning for the husband of her youth.
9 Grain and drink offerings have been cut off(K)
from the house of the Lord;
the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.(L)
10 The fields are destroyed;(M)
the land grieves;
indeed, the grain is destroyed;
the new wine is dried up;(N)
and the fresh oil fails.(O)
11 Be ashamed, you farmers,(P)
wail, you vinedressers,[a]
over the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.(Q)
12 The grapevine is dried up,(R)
and the fig tree is withered;
the pomegranate,(S) the date palm,(T) and the apple(U)—
all the trees of the orchard—have withered.
Indeed, human joy has dried up.(V)
Footnotes
- 1:11 Or The farmers are dismayed, the vinedressers wail
Joel 1:2-12
New American Standard Bible
2 (A)Hear this, you (B)elders,
And listen, all inhabitants of the land.
(C)Has anything like this happened in your days,
Or in your fathers’ days?
3 (D)Tell your sons about it,
And have your sons tell their sons,
And their sons the next generation.
4 What the (E)gnawing locust has left, the [a]swarming locust has eaten;
And what the (F)swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten;
And what the creeping locust has left, the (G)stripping locust has eaten.
5 Awake, (H)you heavy drinkers, and weep;
And wail, all you wine drinkers,
Because of the sweet wine,
For it has been (I)eliminated from your mouth.
6 For a (J)nation has [b]invaded my land,
Mighty and without number;
(K)Its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And it has the jaws of a lioness.
7 It has (L)made my vine a waste
And my fig tree a stump.
It has stripped them bare and hurled them away;
Their branches have become white.
8 (M)Wail like a virgin (N)clothed with sackcloth
For the groom of her youth.
9 The (O)grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off
From the house of the Lord.
The (P)priests mourn,
The ministers of the Lord.
10 The field is (Q)ruined,
(R)The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine has dried up,
Fresh oil has [c]failed.
11 (S)Be ashamed, you farm workers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the (T)harvest of the field is destroyed.
12 The (U)vine has dried up
And the fig tree has withered;
The (V)pomegranate, the (W)palm also, and the (X)apple tree,
All the trees of the field have dried up.
Indeed, (Y)joy has dried up
From the sons of mankind.
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