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Joel 1 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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Have such things happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Tell your children concerning them, and <i>let</i> your children <i>tell</i> their children, and their children another generation.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Awake, ye drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and removed are from your mouth.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion's teeth, and their back teeth those of a <i>lion's</i> whelp.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched <i>my vine</i>, and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.<p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Mourning<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm-tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have have abolished joy.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Repentance<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Gird yourselves <i>with sackcloth</i>, and lament, ye priests: mourn, ye that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, ye that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Sanctify a fast, proclaim a <i>solemn</i> service, gather the elders <i>and</i> all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is nigh, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><i>Your</i> meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine-presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>To thee, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the cattle of the field have looked up to thee: for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../hosea/14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../joel/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Joel 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Joel 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>