Joel 1:2-12
Legacy Standard Bible
2 (A)Hear this, O (B)elders,
And give ear, all inhabitants of the land.
(C)Has anything like this happened in your days
Or in your fathers’ days?
3 (D)Recount about it to your sons,
And let your sons recount about it to their sons,
And their sons to the next generation.
4 What the (E)gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has consumed;
And what the (F)swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has consumed;
And what the creeping locust has left, the (G)stripping locust has consumed.
5 Awake, (H)drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you wine drinkers,
On account of the sweet wine
That is (I)cut off from your mouth.
6 For a (J)nation has come up against my land,
Mighty and without number;
(K)Its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has (L)made my vine a desolation
And my fig tree [a]splinters.
It has stripped them bare and cast them away;
Their branches have become white.
8 (M)Wail like a virgin (N)girded with sackcloth
For the bridegroom of her youth.
9 The (O)grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
From the house of Yahweh.
The (P)priests mourn,
The ministers of Yahweh.
10 The field is (Q)destroyed;
(R)The land mourns,
For the grain is destroyed,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil [b]fails.
11 [c](S)Be ashamed, O farmers,
Wail, O vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley,
Because the (T)harvest of the field perishes.
12 The (U)vine dries up,
And the fig tree [d]fails;
The (V)pomegranate, the (W)palm also, and the [e](X)apple tree,
All the trees of the field dry up.
Indeed, (Y)rejoicing dries up
From the sons of men.
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
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