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- JOEL 1
- 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of
- Pethuel.
- 1:2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants
- of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days
- of your fathers?
- 1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children
- [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
- 1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust
- eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm
- eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the
- caterpillar eaten.
- 1:5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers
- of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your
- mouth.
- 1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without
- number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the
- cheek teeth of a great lion.
- 1:7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he
- hath made it clean bare, and cast [it] away; the branches
- thereof are made white.
- 1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the
- husband of her youth.
- 1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from
- the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers,
- mourn.
- 1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is
- wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
- 1:11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers,
- for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the
- field is perished.
- 1:12 The vine is dried up, 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: because joy is
- withered away from the sons of men.
- 1:13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye
- ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye
- ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink
- offering is withholden from the house of your God.
- 1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the
- elders [and] all the inhabitants of the land [into] the house
- of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.
- 1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand,
- and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
- 1:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and
- gladness from the house of our God?
- 1:17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are
- laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is
- withered.
- 1:18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are
- perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of
- sheep are made desolate.
- 1:19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured
- the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all
- the trees of the field.
- 1:20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the
- rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the
- pastures of the wilderness.
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- JOEL 2
- 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my
- holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for
- the day of the LORD cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand;
- 2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and
- of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a
- great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like,
- neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many
- generations.
- 2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame
- burneth: the land [is] as the garden of Eden before them, and
- behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall
- escape them.
- 2:4 The appearance of them [is] as the appearance of horses;
- and as horsemen, so shall they run.
- 2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall
- they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the
- stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
- 2:6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all
- faces shall gather blackness.
- 2:7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall
- like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways,
- and they shall not break their ranks:
- 2:8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every
- one in his path: and [when] they fall upon the sword, they
- shall not be wounded.
- 2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run
- upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall
- enter in at the windows like a thief.
- 2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall
- tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars
- shall withdraw their shining:
- 2:11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for
- his camp [is] very great: for [he is] strong that executeth his
- word: for the day of the LORD [is] great and very terrible; and
- who can abide it?
- 2:12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye [even] to me
- with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and
- with mourning:
- 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn
- unto the LORD your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow
- to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
- 2:14 Who knoweth [if] he will return and repent, and leave a
- blessing behind him; [even] a meat offering and a drink
- offering unto the LORD your God?
- 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn
- assembly:
- 2:16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble
- the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the
- breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the
- bride out of her closet.
- 2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between
- the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O
- LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen
- should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the
- people, Where [is] their God?
- 2:18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his
- people.
- 2:19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people,
- Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall
- be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach
- among the heathen:
- 2:20 But I will remove far off from you the northern [army],
- and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his
- face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost
- sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come
- up, because he hath done great things.
- 2:21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will
- do great things.
- 2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures
- of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit,
- the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
- 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the
- LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain
- moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain,
- the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month].
- 2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats
- shall overflow with wine and oil.
- 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath
- eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm,
- my great army which I sent among you.
- 2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise
- the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with
- you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
- 2:27 And ye shall know that I [am] in the midst of Israel,
- and [that] I [am] the LORD your God, and none else: and my
- people shall never be ashamed.
- 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour
- out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters
- shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men
- shall see visions:
- 2:29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in
- those days will I pour out my spirit.
- 2:30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth,
- blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
- 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into
- blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
- 2:32 And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call
- on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion
- and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said,
- and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
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- JOEL 3
- 3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I
- shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
- 3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down
- into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there
- for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have
- scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
- 3:3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a
- boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might
- drink.
- 3:4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon,
- and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a
- recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily
- will I return your recompense upon your own head;
- 3:5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have
- carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
- 3:6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem
- have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far
- from their border.
- 3:7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye
- have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own
- head:
- 3:8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the
- hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the
- Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
- 3:9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up
- the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come
- up:
- 3:10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks
- into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong.
- 3:11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and
- gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy
- mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
- 3:12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of
- Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen
- round about.
- 3:13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get
- you down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their
- wickedness [is] great.
- 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for
- the day of the LORD [is] near in the valley of decision.
- 3:15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars
- shall withdraw their shining.
- 3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his
- voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall
- shake: but the LORD [will be] the hope of his people, and the
- strength of the children of Israel.
- 3:17 So shall ye know that I [am] the LORD your God dwelling
- in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and
- there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
- 3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the
- mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow
- with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters,
- and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and
- shall water the valley of Shittim.
- 3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a
- desolate wilderness, for the violence [against] the children of
- Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
- 3:20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from
- generation to generation.
- 3:21 For I will cleanse their blood [that] I have not
- cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
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