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. Hath this
been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? |
1:3: Tell ye your children of it, and let
your children tell their children, and their children another generation. |
1:4: 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. |
1:5: 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. |
1:6: 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. |
1:7: 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. |
1:8: Lament like a virgin girded with
sackcloth for the husband of her youth. |
1:9: 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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1:20: 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. |
2:1: 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 the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; |
2:2: 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. |
2:3: 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. |
2:4: The appearance of them is as the
appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. |
2:5: 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. |
2:6: Before their face the people shall be
much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. |
2:7: 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: |
2:8: 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. |
2:9: 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. |
2:10: 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: |
2:11: And the LORD 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 the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can
abide it? |
2:12: Therefore also now, saith the LORD,
turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping,
and with mourning: |
2:13: And rend your heart, and not your
garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. |
2:14: Who knoweth if he will return and
repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink
offering unto the LORD your God? |
2:15: Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a
fast, call a solemn assembly: |
2:16: 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. |
2:17: Let the priests, the ministers of the
LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy
people, O LORD, 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? |
2:18: Then will the LORD be jealous for his
land, and pity his people. |
2:19: Yea, the LORD 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: |
2:20: 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. |
2:21: Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice:
for the LORD will do great things. |
2:22: 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. |
2:23: Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and
rejoice in the LORD 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. |
2:24: And the floors shall be full of wheat,
and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. |
2:25: 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. |
2:26: And ye shall eat in plenty, and be
satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt
wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. |
2:27: And ye shall know that I am in the
midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my
people shall never be ashamed. |
2:28: 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: |
2:29: And also upon the servants and upon the
handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. |
2:30: And I will shew wonders in the heavens
and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. |
2:31: The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD
come. |
2:32: And it shall come to pass, that
whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount
Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the
remnant whom the LORD shall call. |
3:1: For, behold, in those days, and in that
time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, |
3:2: 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. |
3:3: 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. |
3:4: Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O
Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompence me, swiftly and
speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; |
3:5: Because ye have taken my silver and my
gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: |
3:6: 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. |
3:7: Behold, I will raise them out of the
place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your
own head: |
3:8: And I will sell your sons and your
daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to
the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. |
3:9: 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: |
3:10: Beat your plowshares into swords, and
your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. |
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3:14: Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of
decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. |
3:15: The sun and the moon shall be darkened,
and the stars shall withdraw their shining. |
3:16: The LORD also shall roar out of Zion,
and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall
shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the
children of Israel. |
3:17: So shall ye know that I am the LORD
your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy,
and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. |
3:18: 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 Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain
shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of
Shittim. |
3:19: Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom
shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of
Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. |
3:20: But Judah shall dwell for ever, and
Jerusalem from generation to generation. |
3:21: For I will cleanse their blood that I
have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. |