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cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div 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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <p class="chapter-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>The word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> that came to Joel son of Pethuel:</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Lament over the Ruin of the Country</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Hear this, O elders,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">give ear, all inhabitants of the land!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Has such a thing happened in your days,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or in the days of your ancestors?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Tell your children of it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and let your children tell their children,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and their children another generation.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>What the cutting locust left,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the swarming locust has eaten.</span></span><br /><span class="text">What the swarming locust left,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the hopping locust has eaten,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and what the hopping locust left,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the destroying locust has eaten.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Wake up, you drunkards, and weep;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and wail, all you wine-drinkers,</span></span><br /><span class="text">over the sweet wine,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for it is cut off from your mouth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>For a nation has invaded my land,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">powerful and innumerable;</span></span><br /><span class="text">its teeth are lions’ teeth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and it has the fangs of a lioness.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>It has laid waste my vines,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and splintered my fig trees;</span></span><br /><span class="text">it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">their branches have turned white.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Lament like a virgin dressed in sackcloth</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for the husband of her youth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span><br /><span class="text">The priests mourn,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the ministers of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The fields are devastated,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the ground mourns;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for the grain is destroyed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the wine dries up,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the oil fails.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Be dismayed, you farmers,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">wail, you vinedressers,</span></span><br /><span class="text">over the wheat and the barley;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for the crops of the field are ruined.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The vine withers,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the fig tree droops.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Pomegranate, palm, and apple—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">all the trees of the field are dried up;</span></span><br /><span class="text">surely, joy withers away</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">among the people.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">A Call to Repentance and Prayer</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">wail, you ministers of the altar.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Come, pass the night in sackcloth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you ministers of my God!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Grain offering and drink offering</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">are withheld from the house of your God.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Sanctify a fast,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">call a solemn assembly.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Gather the elders</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and all the inhabitants of the land</span></span><br /><span class="text">to the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and cry out to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Alas for the day!</span><br /><span class="text">For the day of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is near,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and as destruction from the Almighty<span data-fn='#fen-NRSVCE-26579a' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26579a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26579a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> it comes.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Is not the food cut off</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">before our eyes,</span></span><br /><span class="text">joy and gladness</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from the house of our God?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>The seed shrivels under the clods,<span data-fn='#fen-NRSVCE-26581b' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26581b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26581b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the storehouses are desolate;</span></span><br /><span class="text">the granaries are ruined</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">because the grain has failed.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>How the animals groan!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">The herds of cattle wander about</span></span><br /><span class="text">because there is no pasture for them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">even the flocks of sheep are dazed.<span data-fn='#fen-NRSVCE-26582c' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26582c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26582c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>To you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, I cry.</span><br /><span class="text">For fire has devoured</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the pastures of the wilderness,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and flames have burned</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">all the trees of the field.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Even the wild animals cry to you</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">because the watercourses are dried up,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and fire has devoured</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the pastures of the wilderness.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Joel 1:15">Joel 1:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Joel 1:17">Joel 1:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Joel 1:18">Joel 1:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Compare Gk Syr Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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