[[Hosea 14|<< Hosea 14]] | [[Joel|Joel]] | [[Joel 2|Joel 2 >>]] ### Joel 1 1 THE word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. ^1 2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? ^2 3 Tell ye your children of it, and _let_ your children _tell_ their children, and their children another generation. ^3 4 That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust has left has the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left has the caterpiller eaten. ^4 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. ^5 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth _are_ the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion. ^6 7 He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bare, and cast _it_ away; the branches thereof are made white. ^7 8 ¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. ^8 9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. ^9 10 The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes. ^10 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. ^11 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; 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. ^12 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. ^13 14 ¶ 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, ^14 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD _is_ at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. ^15 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, _yea_, joy and gladness from the house of our God? ^16 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. ^17 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. ^18 19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. ^19 20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. ^20