Joel 1
The Devastation of the
Land by Locusts |
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The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethu'el.
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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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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
caterpillar eaten.
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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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For a nation is come up upon my land,
strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a
lion, Rev. 9.8 and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
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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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Lament like a virgin girded with
sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Alas for the day! for the day of the
LORD is at hand, and as a destruction
from the Almighty shall it come. Is. 13.6
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Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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The seed is rotten under their clods, the
garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn
is withered.
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How do the beasts groan! the herds of
cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks
of sheep are made desolate.
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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.
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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.
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