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# Chapter 1
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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, you elders,
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And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land!
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Has anything like this happened in your days,
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Or even in the days of your fathers?
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3 Tell your children about it,
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Let your children tell their children,
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And their children another generation.
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4 What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten;
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What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
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And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
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5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep;
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And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
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Because of the new wine,
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For it has been cut off from your mouth.
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6 For a nation has come up against My land,
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Strong, and without number;
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His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
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And he has the fangs of a fierce lion.
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7 He has laid waste My vine,
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And ruined My fig tree;
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He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
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Its branches are made white.
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8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
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For the husband of her youth.
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9 The grain offering and the drink offering
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Have been cut off from the house of the Lord;
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The priests mourn, who minister to the Lord.
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10 The field is wasted,
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The land mourns;
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For the grain is ruined,
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The new wine is dried up,
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The oil fails.
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11 Be ashamed, you farmers,
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Wail, you vinedressers,
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For the wheat and the barley;
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Because the harvest of the field has perished.
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12 The vine has dried up,
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And the fig tree has withered;
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The pomegranate tree,
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The palm tree also,
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And the apple tree—
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All the trees of the field are withered;
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Surely joy has withered away from the sons of men.
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13 Gird yourselves and lament, you priests;
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Wail, you who minister before the altar;
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Come, lie all night in sackcloth,
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You who minister to my God;
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For the grain offering and the drink offering
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Are withheld from the house of your God.
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14 Consecrate a fast,
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Call a sacred assembly;
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Gather the elders
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And all the inhabitants of the land
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Into the house of the Lord your God,
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And cry out to the Lord.
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15 Alas for the day!
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For the day of the Lord is at hand;
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It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
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16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes,
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Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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17 The seed shrivels under the clods,
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Storehouses are in shambles;
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Barns are broken down,
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For the grain has withered.
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18 How the animals groan!
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The herds of cattle are restless,
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Because they have no pasture;
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Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.
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19 O Lord, to You I cry out;
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For fire has devoured the open pastures,
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And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
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20 The beasts of the field also cry out to You,
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For the water brooks are dried up,
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And fire has devoured the open pastures. |