Joel Chapter 1 (Index)

001  The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

002  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?

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

004  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.

005  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.

006  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.

007  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.

008  Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

009  The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

010  The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

011  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.

012  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.

013  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.

014  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.

015  Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

016  Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

017  The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

018  How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

019  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.

020  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.