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id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/14.htm" title="Hosea 14">◄</a> Joel 1 <a href="../joel/2.htm" title="Joel 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/joel/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Coming Invasion</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This message from the LORD came to Pethuel’s son Joel.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:1 The Heb. name Joel means The LORD is God">a</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Hear this, you elders!</p> <p class="poetry2">Listen, all of you residents of the land!</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">Has there ever been anything like this during your lifetime,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:2 Lit. this in your days">b</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">or even when your ancestors were alive?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:2 Lit. even in the days of your ancestors">c</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Pass it on to your children,</p> <p class="poetry2">and from<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:3 The Heb. lacks from">d</a></span> your children to their children,</p> <p class="poetry2">and from<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:3 The Heb. lacks from">e</a></span> their children to the following generation.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Whatever the devouring locust left behind</p> <p class="poetry2">the locust swarm has consumed!</p> <p class="poetry2">Whatever the locust swarm has left behind,</p> <p class="poetry2">the young locust<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:4 Or caterpillar">f</a></span> has consumed!</p> <p class="poetry2">Whatever the young locust<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:4 Or caterpillar">g</a></span> has left behind,</p> <p class="poetry2">the ravaging locust has consumed!”</p> <p class="heading">A Call to Mourning</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Wake up, you drunkards!</p> <p class="poetry2">Cry aloud and howl, you wine drinkers,</p> <p class="poetry2">because your supply of new wine has been snatched from you.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:5 Lit. from your lips">h</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Indeed, a nation has invaded my land—</p> <p class="poetry2">it is strong and its population is too large to count<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:6 Lit. and innumerable">i</a></span> —</p> <p class="poetry2">with teeth like a lion</p> <p class="poetry2">and fangs<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:6 Or jaws">j</a></span> like a lioness.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>That nation<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:7 Lit. It">k</a></span> laid waste my vines,</p> <p class="poetry2">and stripped bare my fig tree,</p> <p class="poetry2">discarding it.</p> <p class="poetry2">It stripped off<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:7 Lit. made white">l</a></span> its bark.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Grieve like a virgin,</p> <p class="poetry2">who, dressed in her mourner’s clothes,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:8 Or in sackcloth">m</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">cries out in memory<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:8 The Heb. lacks in memory">n</a></span> of the man she was going to marry.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:8 Lit. the husband of her youth">o</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Both grain offering and wine offering have been removed from the LORD’s Temple;<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:9 Or house; and so throughout the book">p</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">the priests and ministering servants of the LORD are mourning.”</p> <p class="heading">The Coming Famine</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“The fields lie in ruins</p> <p class="poetry2">and the ground is dried up.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:10 Or ground mourns">q</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">Indeed, the grain is ruined,</p> <p class="poetry2">the new wine has evaporated,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the olive oil has run out.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Be dismayed, you farmers!</p> <p class="poetry2">Cry aloud, you vintners,</p> <p class="poetry2">for the wheat and barley,</p> <p class="poetry2">because the harvest in your fields has been lost.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The grapevine is shriveled</p> <p class="poetry2">and the fig tree is withered,</p> <p class="poetry2">along with the pomegranate tree, the palm tree, the apple tree</p> <p class="poetry2">and all of the cultivated trees.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:12 Lit. the trees of the field">r</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">Truly, joy has evaporated from Adam’s children.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:12 Lit. from sons of mankind">s</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">A Call to Mourn and Repent</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Put on your mourning clothes, you priests;</p> <p class="poetry2">and cry aloud, you ministering servants at the altar!</p> <p class="poetry2">Come! Stay the night in mourner’s clothes,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:13 Or in sackcloth">t</a></span> you ministers of my God,</p> <p class="poetry2">because the grain offering and the wine offering is held back from the Temple of your God.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Set apart time for a fast!</p> <p class="poetry2">Call a solemn assembly!</p> <p class="poetry2">Gather the elders and everyone living in the land to the Temple of the LORD your God,</p> <p class="poetry2">and cry out to the LORD!”</p> <p class="heading">A Lament about the Day of the LORD</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Oh, no! For the Day of the LORD approaches,</p> <p class="poetry2">and like destruction from the Almighty, it will come!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Isn’t our food supply cut off right in front of us,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:16 Lit. cut off before our eyes">u</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">along with joy and gladness from the Temple of our God?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Seeds shrivel within their furrows,</p> <p class="poetry2">the storehouses lie empty,</p> <p class="poetry2">and granaries stand in ruins</p> <p class="poetry2">because the grain has withered.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Oh, how the livestock groan!</p> <p class="poetry2">The herds of cattle<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:18 Or oxen">v</a></span> wander about</p> <p class="poetry2">because they have no pasture.</p> <p class="poetry2">Even flocks of sheep suffer!</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>To you, LORD, I cry out,</p> <p class="poetry2">because fire has devoured the open pastures,</p> <p class="poetry2">and has set all the cultivated trees<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:19 Lit. the trees of the field">w</a></span> ablaze.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The livestock also cries out to you,</p> <p class="poetry2">because their water sources have evaporated</p> <p class="poetry2">and because fire has consumed the open pastures.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 1:1 The Heb. name <i>Joel</i> means <i>The LORD is God</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 1:2 Lit. <i>this in your days</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 1:2 Lit. <i>even in the days of your ancestors</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 1:3 The Heb. lacks <i>from</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 1:3 The Heb. lacks <i>from</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 1:4 Or <i>caterpillar</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 1:4 Or <i>caterpillar</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 1:5 Lit. <i>from your lips</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 1:6 Lit. <i>and innumerable</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 1:6 Or <i>jaws</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 1:7 Lit. <i>It</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 1:7 Lit. <i>made white</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 1:8 Or <i>in sackcloth</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 1:8 The Heb. lacks <i>in memory</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 1:8 Lit. <i>the husband of her youth</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 1:9 Or <i>house</i>; 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