LT - Old Testament

Joel

Call a solemn assembly and gather to the house of the Lord, for the day of the Lord is at hand.

1. The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

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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?

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3. Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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8. ¶Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the

husband of her youth.

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9. The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.

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10. The field is wasted, the

land mourneth; for the

corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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