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Open your ears, all inhabitants of this land! Nothing like this has ever happened in your lifetime or in your ancestors' lifetime.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Tell your children about it. Have your children tell their children. Have your grandchildren tell their children.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>What young locusts leave, mature locusts will eat. What mature locusts leave, adult locusts will eat. What adult locusts leave, grasshoppers will eat.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Wake up and cry, you drunks! Cry loudly, you wine drinkers! New wine has been taken away from you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>A strong nation attacked my land. It has too many soldiers to count. They have teeth like lions. They have fangs like grown lions.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They destroyed my grapevines. They ruined my fig trees. They stripped off what they could eat, threw the rest away, and left the branches bare.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Cry loudly like a young woman who is dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the man she was going to marry.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Grain offerings and wine offerings are no longer brought to the LORD's temple. The priests, the LORD's servants, mourn.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Israel's fields are ruined, and the ground is dried up. The grain has been destroyed. The new wine has dried up. The olive oil has run out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Be sad, you farmers! Cry loudly, you grape growers! Mourn for the wheat and the barley. The harvest is destroyed in the field.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The grapevines are dried up. The fig trees are withered. The pomegranate, palm, and apricot trees, as well as all the trees in the orchards, have died. Yes, the joy of these people has died too.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Put on your sackcloth and mourn, you priests. Cry loudly, you servants of the altar. Spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God. Grain offerings and wine offerings are withheld from your God's temple.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Schedule a time to fast! Call for an assembly! Gather the leaders and everyone who lives in the land. Bring them to the temple of the LORD your God, and cry to the LORD for help.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>This will be a terrible day! The day of the LORD is near, and it will come like destruction from the Almighty.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Food disappears right before our eyes. Happiness and rejoicing disappear from our God's temple.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Seeds shrivel up in their shells. Storehouses are destroyed. Barns are ruined. The grain has dried up. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The animals groan. Herds of cattle wander around confused. There's no pasture for them. Even flocks of sheep are suffering.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>O LORD, I cry to you for help! Fire has burned up the open pastures. Flames have burned up all the trees in the orchards.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Even wild animals long for you. Streams run dry. Fire has burned up the open pastures.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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