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.
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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