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Joel 1 📜 📕 ↷
Invasion of Locusts
1 THE word of our Lord, that was made to Joel the son of Phatuel.📜💬📚
2 Hear this ye ancients, and harken with your ears all ye inhabitants of the land: if this hath been done in your days, or in the days of your fathers?📜💬📚
3 Upon this tell you to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to an other generation.📜💬📚
4 The residue of the eruke hath the locust eaten, and the residue of the locust hath the bruke eaten, and the residue of the bruke hath the blast eaten.📜💬📚
5 Awake you that be drunk, and weep and howl all ye, that drink wine in sweetness: because it is perished from your mouth.📜💬📚
6 For a nation is ascended upon my land, strong & innumerable: his teeth as the teeth of a lion: & his cheek-teeth as of a lion's whelp.📜💬📚
7 He hath laid my vineyard into a desert, and hath pilled off the bark of my fig-tree: stripping he hath spoiled it, and cast it forth: the boughs thereof are made white.📜💬📚
A Call to Mourning
8 Mourn as a virgin girded with sack-cloth upon the husband of her youth.📜💬📚
9 Sacrifice and libation is perished out of the house of our Lord: the priests our Lord's ministers mourned.📜💬📚
10 The region is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: because the wheat is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.📜💬📚
11 The husbandmen are confounded, the dressers of vines have howled upon the wheat, and the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.📜💬📚
12 The vineyard is confounded, & the fig-tree hath languished: the pomegranate, & the palm-tree, and the apple-tree, & all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is confounded from the children of men.📜💬📚
A Call to Repentance
13 Gird yourselves, & mourn ye priests, howl ye ministers of the altar: go in, lie in sack-cloth ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is perished out of the house of your God.📜💬📚
14 Sacrifice ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to our Lord:📜💬📚
15 A a a, for the day: because the day of our Lord is at hand, and as destruction from the mighty it shall come.📜💬📚
16 Why, are not the victuals perished before your eyes, joy and exultation out of the house of our God?📜💬📚
17 The beasts are rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the store-houses are dissipated: because the wheat is confounded.📜💬📚
18 Why groan the beast, why lowed the flocks of the herd? Because there is no pasture for them: yea & the flocks of the cattle are perished.📜💬📚
19 To thee o Lord will I cry: because fire hath eaten the beautiful things of the desert, and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the region.📜💬📚
20 Yea and the beasts of the field, as a garden bed thirsting for a shower, have looked up to thee, because the fountains of waters are dried up, and fire hath devoured the beautiful things of the desert.📜💬📚
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