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Joel 1
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Joel 1 . 1
1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:CJoel 1:1-14TOSKJoel 1:1
Joel 1 . 2
2 Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?IPActs 2:5CJoel 1:1-14TOSKJoel 1:2
Joel 1 . 3
3 Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.CJoel 1:1-14TOSKJoel 1:3
Joel 1 . 4
4 What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.CJoel 1:1-14 Joel 1:4-2:25TOSKJoel 1:4
Joel 1 . 5
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.CJoel 1:1-14TOSKJoel 1:5
Joel 1 . 6
6 For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.CJoel 1:1-14TOSKJoel 1:6
Joel 1 . 7
7 It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.CJoel 1:1-14TOSKJoel 1:7
Joel 1 . 8
8 Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.CJoel 1:1-14TOSKJoel 1:8
Joel 1 . 9
9 Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.CJoel 1:1-14TOSKJoel 1:9
Joel 1 . 10
10 The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.CJoel 1:1-14 Joel 1:4-2:25TOSKJoel 1:10
Joel 1 . 11
11 Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.CJoel 1:1-14TOSKJoel 1:11
Joel 1 . 12
12 The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.IPLuke 23:27-31CJoel 1:1-14 Joel 1:4-2:25TOSKJoel 1:12
Joel 1 . 13
13 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.CJoel 1:1-14TOSKJoel 1:13
Joel 1 . 14
14 Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.CJoel 1:1-14TOSKJoel 1:14
Joel 1 . 15
15 Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.TOSKJoel 1:15
Joel 1 . 16
16 Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?TOSKJoel 1:16
Joel 1 . 17
17 The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.TOSKJoel 1:17
Joel 1 . 18
18 How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.TOSKJoel 1:18
Joel 1 . 19
19 To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.CJoel 1:4-2:25TOSKJoel 1:19
Joel 1 . 20
20 Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.TOSKJoel 1:20