Joel
1:1The word of Jehovah that came to Joel
the son of Pethuel. 1:2Hear this, ye old men, and give ear,
all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or in the
days of your fathers? 1:3Tell ye your children of it, and
let your children tell their children, and their children
another generation. 1:4That which the palmer-worm hath left
hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the
canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the
caterpillar eaten. 1:5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and
wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut
off from your mouth. 1:6For a nation is come up upon my land,
strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath
the jaw-teeth of a lioness. 1:7He 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. 1:8Lament like a virgin girded with
sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 1:9The meal-offering and
the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests,
Jehovah's ministers, mourn. 1:10The field is laid waste, the land
mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil
languisheth. 1:11Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail,
O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of
the field is perished. 1:12The vine is withered, 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: for joy is withered away
from the sons of men. 1:13Gird yourselves with sackcloth,
and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all
night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the
drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God. 1:14Sanctify a fast, call a solemn
assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land
unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah. 1:15Alas for the day! for the day of
Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 1:16Is
not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from
the house of our God? 1:17The seeds rot under their clods; the
garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is
withered. 1:18How do the beasts groan! the herds of
cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of
sheep are made desolate. 1:19O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the
fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath
burned all the trees of the field. 1:20Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto
thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the
pastures of the wilderness.
2:1Blow 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 Jehovah cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2:2a day
of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the
dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath
not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the
years of many generations. 2:3A 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 none hath escaped
them. 2:4The appearance of them is as the
appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so do they run. 2:5Like
the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the
noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people
set in battle array. 2:6At their presence the peoples are in
anguish; all faces are waxed pale. 2:7They run like mighty men; they climb
the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and they
break not their ranks. 2:8Neither doth one thrust another; they
march every one in his path; and they burst through the weapons, and break
not off their course. 2:9They leap upon the city; they run upon
the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like
a thief. 2:10The earth quaketh before them; the
heavens tremble; the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw
their shining. 2:11And Jehovah uttereth his voice before
his army; for his camp is very great; for he is strong that executeth his
word; for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can abide
it? 2:12Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn ye
unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with
mourning: 2:13and rend your heart, and not your
garments, and turn unto Jehovah your God; for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repenteth him of the
evil. 2:14Who knoweth whether he will not turn
and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal-offering and a
drink-offering unto Jehovah your God? 2:15Blow the trumpet in
Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly; 2:16gather the people,
sanctify the assembly, assemble the old men, gather the children, and
those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber,
and the bride out of her closet. 2:17Let the priests, the ministers of
Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy
people, O Jehovah, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the nations
should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where
is their God? 2:18Then was Jehovah jealous for his land,
and had pity on his people. 2:19And Jehovah answered and said unto his
people, Behold, I will send you grain, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall
be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the
nations; 2:20but I will remove far off from you the
northern army, and will drive it into a land barren and desolate,
its forepart into the eastern sea, and its hinder part into the western
sea; and its stench shall come up, and its ill savor shall come up,
because it hath done great things. 2:21Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice;
for Jehovah hath done great things. 2:22Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field;
for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth its
fruit, the fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength. 2:23Be
glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he
giveth you the former rain in just measure, and he causeth to come down
for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first
month. 2:24And the floors shall be full of wheat,
and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. 2:25And I will restore to
you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the
caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you. 2:26And
ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of
Jehovah your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you; and my people shall
never be put to shame. 2:27And ye shall know that I am in the
midst of Israel, and that I am Jehovah your God, and there is none else;
and my people shall never be put to shame. 2:28And 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: 2:29and also upon the servants and upon
the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit. 2:30And
I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, and fire, and
pillars of smoke. 2:31The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah
cometh. 2:32And it shall come to pass, that
whosoever shall call on the name of Jehovah shall be delivered; for in
mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as Jehovah
hath said, and among the remnant those whom Jehovah doth call.
3:1For, behold, in those days, and in that
time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 3:2I
will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of
Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and
for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and
they have parted my land, 3:3and have cast lots for my people, and
have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may
drink. 3:4Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and
Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense?
and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your
recompense upon your own head. 3:5Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver
and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,
3:6and have sold the children of Judah and
the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may
remove them far from their border; 3:7behold, I will stir them up out of the
place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your
own head; 3:8and I will sell your sons and your
daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them
to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken it. 3:9Proclaim ye this among the nations;
prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let
them come up. 3:10Beat your plowshares into swords, and
your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 3:11Haste ye, and come, all ye nations
round about, and gather yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones
to come down, O Jehovah. 3:12Let the nations bestir themselves, and
come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all
the nations round about. 3:13Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest
is ripe: come, tread ye; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for
their wickedness is great. 3:14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley
of decision! for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision. 3:15The
sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. 3:16And
Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the
heavens and the earth shall shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge unto his
people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel. 3:17So shall ye know that
I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall
Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
3:18And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine, and the hills shall flow
with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters; and a
fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the
valley of Shittim. 3:19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom
shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of
Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 3:20But
Judah shall abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
3:21And I will cleanse their blood, that I
have not cleansed: for Jehovah dwelleth in Zion.
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