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| The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of
Pethuel. |
| 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? |
| Tell ye your children of it, and let your children
tell their children, and their children another generation. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the
husband of her youth. |
| The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off
from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. |
| The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn
is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at
hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. |
| Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy
and gladness from the house of our God? |
| The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners
are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. |
| How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are
perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are
made desolate. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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; |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The appearance of them is as the appearance of
horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. |
| 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. |
| Before their face the people shall be much pained:
all faces shall gather blackness. |
| 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: |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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: |
| 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? |
| Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to
me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with
mourning: |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a
solemn assembly: |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity
his people. |
| 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: |
| 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. |
| Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD
will do great things. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats
shall overflow with wine and oil. |
| And I will restore to you the years that the locust
hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my
great army which I sent among you. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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: |
| And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in
those days will I pour out my spirit. |
| And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the
earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. |
| The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon
into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. |
| 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. |
| For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I
shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and
Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompense?
and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your
recompense upon your own head; |
| Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and
have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: |
| 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. |
| Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither
ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head: |
| 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. |
| 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: |
| Beat your plowshares into swords, and your
pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. |
| Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and
gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to
come down, O LORD. |
| Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the
valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen
round about. |
| Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come,
get you down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their
wickedness is great. |
| Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision:
for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. |
| The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the
stars shall withdraw their shining. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from
generation to generation. |
| For I will cleanse their blood that I have not
cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. |
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