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
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.
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