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1 | The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. |
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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? |
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3 | Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their
children, and their children another generation. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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8 | Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of
her youth. |
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9 | The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the
house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. |
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10 | The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is
wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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, |
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15 | Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a
destruction from the Almighty shall it come. |
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16 | Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness
from the house of our God? |
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17 | The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid
desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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