Joel 1

¹ The wordThe word of JehovahJehovah that came to Joel the sonson of Pethuel.

² HearHear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitantsinhabitants of the landland. Hath this been in your daysdays, or in the daysdays of your fathersfathers?

³ TellTell ye your childrenchildren of it, and [let] your childrenchildren [TellTell] their childrenchildren, and their childrenchildren another generationgeneration.

⁴ That which the palmer-wormpalmer-worm hath left hath the locustlocust eateneaten; and that which the locustlocust hath left hath the canker-wormcanker-worm eateneaten; and that which the canker-wormcanker-worm hath left hath the caterpillarcaterpillar eateneaten.

⁵ Awake, ye drunkards, and weepweep; and wailwail, all ye drinkers of winewine, because of the sweet winewine; for it is cut offcut off from your mouthmouth.

⁶ For a nationnation is come up upon my landland, strong, and without numberwithout number; his teethteeth are the teethteeth of a lionlion, and he hath the jaw-teethteeth of a lioness.

⁷ He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my figfig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made whitewhite.

⁸ Lament like a virgin girdedgirded with sackclothsackcloth for the husband of her youthyouth.

⁹ The meal-offeringoffering and the drink-offeringoffering are cut offcut off from the househouse of JehovahJehovah; the priestspriests, Jehovah'sJehovah's ministersministers, mournmourn.

¹⁰ The fieldfield is laid waste, the land mournethmourneth; for the graingrain is destroyed, the new winenew wine is drieddried up, the oil languisheth.

¹¹ Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wailwail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheatwheat and for the barleybarley; for the harvestharvest of the fieldfield is perished.

¹² The vine is witheredwithered, and the figfig-treetree languisheth; the pomegranate-treepomegranate-tree, the palm-treetree also, and the appleapple-treetree, even all the trees of the fieldtrees of the field are witheredwithered: for joy is witheredwithered away from the sons of men.

¹³ GirdGird yourselves [with sackclothsackcloth], and lament, ye priestspriests; wailwail, ye ministersministers of the altaraltar; comecome, lie all night in sackclothsackcloth, ye ministersministers of my GodGod: for the meal-offeringoffering and the drink-offeringoffering are withholden from the househouse of your GodGod.

¹⁴ SanctifySanctify a fast, callcall a solemn assembly, gathergather the old men [and] all the inhabitantsthe inhabitants of the landland unto the househouse of JehovahJehovah your GodGod, and crycry unto JehovahJehovah.

¹⁵ Alas for the dayday! for the day ofday of JehovahJehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the AlmightyAlmighty shall it comecome.

¹⁶ Is not the foodfood cut offcut off before our eyeseyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the househouse of our GodGod?

¹⁷ The seeds rot underunder their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the graingrain is witheredwithered.

¹⁸ How do the beastsbeasts groan! the herdsherds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasturepasture; yea, the flocksflocks of sheepsheep are made desolate.

¹⁹ O JehovahJehovah, to thee do I cry; for the firefire hath devoureddevoured the pastures of the wildernesswilderness, and the flameflame hath burned all the trees of the fieldtrees of the field.

²⁰ Yea, the beastsbeasts of the fieldfield pant unto thee; for the waterwater brooks are drieddried up, and the firefire hath devoureddevoured the pastures of the wildernesswilderness.