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1:1 The word of Jehovah 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 your children of it, and [let] your children [tell]
 their children, and their children another generation:
1:4 that which the palmer-worm 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: his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the
 cheek teeth of a lioness.
1:7 He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree;
 he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are
 made white.
1:8 Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of
 her youth.
1:9 The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the
 house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
1:10 The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is
 wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
1:11 Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the
 wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath
 perished.
1:12 The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the
 pomegranate-tree, the palm also and the apple-tree; all the
 trees of the field are withered, yea, joy is withered away from
 the children of men.
1:13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of
 the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my
 God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden
 from the house of your God.
1:14 Hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the
 elders, [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of
 Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as
 destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
1:16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness
 from the house of our God?
1:17 The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries 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
 bewildered, for they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep also
 are in suffering.
1:19 To thee, Jehovah, do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the
 pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned up all
 the trees of the field.
1:20 The beasts of the field also cry unto thee; for the
 water-courses are dried, and the fire hath devoured the
 pastures of the wilderness.
2:1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy
 mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the
 day of Jehovah cometh, for it is at hand;
2:2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross
 darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; -- a great
 people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither
 shall be any more after them, to the years of generations and
 generations.
2:3 A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame
 burneth; the land is as a garden of Eden before them, and
 behind them a desolate wilderness: yea, and nothing escapeth
 them.
2:4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and
 as horsemen, so they run.
2:5 Like the noise of chariots, on the tops of the mountains,
 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 them the peoples are in anguish: all faces turn pale.
2:7 They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of
 war; and they march every one on his ways, and break not their
 ranks.
2:8 Neither doth one press upon another; they march every one in
 his path; and fall amid weapons, but are not wounded.
2:9 They spread themselves over the city; they run upon the
 wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in by the
 windows like a thief.
2:10 The earth quaketh before them; the heavens tremble; the sun
 and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their
 shining.
2:11 And Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; for his
 camp is very great; for strong is he that executeth his word:
 for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can
 bear it?
2:12 Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn 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
 Jehovah your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to
 anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repenteth him of the
 evil.
2:14 Who knoweth? He might return and repent, and leave a
 blessing behind him, an oblation and a drink-offering for
 Jehovah your God?
2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn
 assembly;
2:16 gather the people, hallow the congregation, assemble the
 elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts;
 let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride
 from her closet.
2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the
 porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy
 people, and give not thine inheritance to reproach, that they
 should be a byword of the nations. Wherefore should they say
 among the peoples, Where is their God?
2:18 Then Jehovah will be jealous for his land, and will have
 pity on his people.
2:19 And Jehovah will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I
 send you corn, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied
 therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the
 nations.
2:20 And I will remove far off from you him [that cometh] from
 the north, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,
 his face toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the hinder
 sea; and his stench shall come up, and his ill odour shall come
 up, for he hath exalted himself to do great things.
2:21 -- Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for Jehovah doeth
 great things.
2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of
 the wilderness do spring; for the tree beareth its fruit; the
 fig-tree and the vine yield full increase.
2:23 And ye, children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Jehovah
 your God; for he giveth you the early rain in due measure, and
 he causeth to come down for you the rain, the early rain, and
 the latter rain at the beginning [of the season].
2:24 And the floors shall be full of corn, and the vats shall
 overflow with new 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
 palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.
2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise
 the name of Jehovah your God, who 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, Jehovah, [am] your God, and there is none else: and my
 people shall never be ashamed.
2:28 And it shall come to pass afterwards [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 Yea, even upon the bondmen and upon the handmaids in those
 days will I pour out my Spirit.
2:30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and on the earth,
 blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
2:31 The sun shall be changed to darkness, and the moon to
 blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come.
2:32 And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of
 Jehovah shall be saved: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem
 shall be deliverance, as Jehovah hath said, and for the residue
 whom Jehovah shall call.
3:1 For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall
 turn again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
3:2 I will also gather all the nations, and will bring them down