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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 caterpiller
 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.
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 fats 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 caterpiller, 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 shew 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 sa