JOEL
Joel 1
1 The word of Yahweh that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
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?
3 Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children,
and their children another generation.
4 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.
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.
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.
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.
8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of Yahweh;
the priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.
10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the
corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
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.
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.
13 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.
14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders [and] all the
inhabitants of the land [into] the house of Yahweh your God, and cry unto
Yahweh,
15 Alas for the day! for the day of Yahweh [is] at
hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the
house of our God?
17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are
perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made
desolate.
19 O Yahweh, 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.
20 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.
1 Blow 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 Yahweh cometh, for [it
is] nigh at hand;
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness,
as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there
hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the
years of many generations.
3 A 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 nothing shall escape them.
4 The appearance of them [is] as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so
shall they run.
5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the
noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble,
as a strong people set in battle array.
6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather
blackness.
7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war;
and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their
ranks:
8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and
[when] they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they
shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a
thief.
10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and
the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
11 And Yahweh shall utter His voice before His army: for His camp [is] very
great: for [He is] strong that executeth His word:
for the day of Yahweh [is] great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
12 Therefore also now, saith Yahweh, turn ye [even] to Me with all your heart,
and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Yahweh your God:
for He [is] gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth Him of the evil.
14 Who knoweth [if] He will return and repent, and
leave a blessing behind Him; [even] a meat offering and a drink offering unto
Yahweh your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in
16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather
the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of
his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
17 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the
altar, and let them say, Spare Thy people, O Yahweh, and give not Thine
heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should
they say among the people, Where [is] their God?
18 Then will Yahweh be jealous for His land, and pity His people.
19 Yea, Yahweh will answer and say unto His people, Behold, I will send you
corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no
more make you a reproach among the heathen:
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern [army], and will drive him
into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his
hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for Yahweh will do great things.
22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do
spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree
and the vine do yield their strength.
23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh your God: for He
hath given you the former rain moderately, and He will cause to come down for
you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month].
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine
and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the
cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, My great army which I sent among you.
26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of Yahweh
your God, That hath dealt wondrously with you: and My
people shall never be ashamed.
27 And ye shall know that I [am] in the midst of
28 And 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:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour
out My spirit.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire,
and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the
great and the terrible day of Yahweh come.
32 And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of Yahweh
shall be delivered: for in mount
1 For, behold, in those days, and
in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of
Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and [for] My heritage
Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land.
3 And they have cast lots for My people; and have
given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
4 Yea, and what have ye to do with Me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the
coasts of
5 Because ye have taken My silver and My gold, and have carried into your
temples My goodly pleasant things:
6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto
the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and
will return your recompence upon your own head:
8 And I will sell your sons and
your daughters into the hand of the children of
9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war,
wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into
swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the
weak say, I [am] strong.
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves
together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Yahweh.
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the
13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the
press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness [is] great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of Yahweh [is]
near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their
shining.
16 Yahweh also shall roar out of
17 So shall ye know that I [am] Yahweh your God dwelling in
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the
mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the rivers of
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21 For I will cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwelleth in