
Joel 1-3 New International Version (NIV)1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel. An Invasion of Locusts2 Hear this, you elders; 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! 8 Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth 11 Despair, you farmers, A Call to Lamentation13 Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; 15 Alas for that day! 16 Has not the food been cut off 19 To you, Lord, I call, An Army of Locusts2 Blow the trumpet in Zion; Let all who live in the land tremble, 3 Before them fire devours, 6 At the sight of them, nations are in anguish; 10 Before them the earth shakes, Rend Your Heart12 “Even now,” declares the Lord, 13 Rend your heart 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, The Lord’s Answer18 Then the Lord was jealous for his land 19 The Lord replied[e] to them: “I am sending you grain, new wine and olive oil, 20 “I will drive the northern horde far from you, Surely he has done great things! 25 “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— The Day of the Lord28 “And afterward, The Nations Judged3 [h]“In those days and at that time, 4 “Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done. 5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[j] 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland. 7 “See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done. 8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken. 9 Proclaim this among the nations: Bring down your warriors, Lord! 12 “Let the nations be roused; 14 Multitudes, multitudes Blessings for God’s People17 “Then you will know that I, the Lord your God, 18 “In that day the mountains will drip new wine, The Lord dwells in Zion! Footnotes:
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