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[1]
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
[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?
[3]
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their
children, and their children another generation.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[8] Lament like a virgin girded
with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
[9] The meat
offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the
LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
[10] The
field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new
wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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,
[15] Alas for the day! for the day of the
LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it
come.
[16] Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea,
joy and gladness from the house of our God?
[17] The seed
is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns
are broken down; for the corn is withered.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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] 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.
[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.
[4] The appearance of them is as
the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
[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.
[6] Before their face
the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather
blackness.
[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:
[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.
[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.
[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:
[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?
[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:
[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.
[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?
[15] Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a
solemn assembly:
[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.
[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?
[18] Then
will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
[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:
[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.
[21] Fear not,
O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
[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.
[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.
[24] And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the
fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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:
[29] And also upon the servants and
upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
[30]
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and
fire, and pillars of smoke.
[31] The sun shall be turned
into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the
terrible day of the LORD come.
[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.
[1]
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring
again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
[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] 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.
[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 recompence? and if ye recompence me, swiftly and speedily will I
return your recompence upon your own head;
[5] Because ye
have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples
my goodly pleasant things:
[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.
[7] Behold, I will
raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will
return your recompence upon your own head:
[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.
[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:
[10] Beat your plowshares into
swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am
strong.
[11] Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen,
and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty
ones to come down, O LORD.
[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.
[13] Put ye in the
sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is
full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
[14]
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the
LORD is near in the valley of decision.
[15] The sun and
the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their
shining.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[20] But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem
from generation to generation.
[21] For I will cleanse
their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.