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
English Standard Version
An Invasion of Locusts
2 (A)Hear this, (B)you elders;
give ear, (C)all inhabitants of the land!
(D)Has such a thing happened in your days,
or in the days of your fathers?
3 (E)Tell your children of it,
and let your children tell their children,
and their children to another generation.
4 What (F)the cutting locust left,
(G)the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
(H)the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
(I)the destroying locust has eaten.
5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
and (J)wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of (K)the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For (L)a nation has come up against my land,
(M)powerful and beyond number;
(N)its teeth are lions' teeth,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has laid waste my vine
and splintered my (O)fig tree;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
their branches are made white.
8 Lament like a virgin[a] (P)wearing sackcloth
for the bridegroom of her youth.
9 (Q)The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
from the house of the Lord.
(R)The priests mourn,
(S)the ministers of the Lord.
10 The fields are destroyed,
(T)the ground mourns,
because (U)the grain is destroyed,
(V)the wine dries up,
the oil languishes.
11 (W)Be ashamed,[b] O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
(X)because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine dries up;
(Y)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and (Z)gladness dries up
from the children of man.
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