JOE-1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of 
Pethuel.



JOE-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?



JOE-1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children 
[tell] their children, and their children another generation.



JOE-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.



JOE-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.



JOE-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.



JOE-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.



JOE-1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the 
husband of her youth.



JOE-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.



JOE-1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is 
wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.



JOE-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.



JOE-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.



JOE-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.



JOE-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.



JOE-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.



JOE-1:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and 
gladness from the house of our God?



JOE-1:17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are 
laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is 
withered.



JOE-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.



JOE-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.



JOE-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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