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class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NASB 1995</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/joel/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Devastation of Locusts</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>The word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>Hear this, O elders,<br> And listen, all inhabitants of the land.<br> Has <i>anything like</i> this happened in your days<br> Or in your fathers’ days?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>Tell your sons about it,<br> And <i>let</i> your sons <i>tell</i> their sons,<br> And their sons the next generation.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten;<br> And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten;<br> And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Awake, drunkards, and weep;<br> And wail, all you wine drinkers,<br> On account of the sweet wine<br> That is cut off from your mouth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>For a nation has invaded my land,<br> Mighty and without number;<br> Its teeth are the teeth of a lion,<br> And it has the fangs of a lioness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>It has made my vine a waste<br> And my fig tree splinters.<br> It has stripped them bare and cast <i>them</i> away;<br> Their branches have become white.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth<br> For the bridegroom of her youth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off<br> From the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<br> The priests mourn,<br> The ministers of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>The field is ruined,<br> The land mourns;<br> For the grain is ruined,<br> The new wine dries up,<br> Fresh oil fails.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Be ashamed, O farmers,<br> Wail, O vinedressers,<br> For the wheat and the barley;<br> Because the harvest of the field is destroyed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>The vine dries up<br> And the fig tree fails;<br> The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree,<br> All the trees of the field dry up.<br> Indeed, rejoicing dries up<br> From the sons of men.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Gird yourselves <i>with sackcloth</i><br> And lament, O priests;<br> Wail, O ministers of the altar!<br> Come, spend the night in sackcloth<br> O ministers of my God,<br> For the grain offering and the drink offering<br> Are withheld from the house of your God.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Starvation and Drought</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Consecrate a fast,<br> Proclaim a solemn assembly;<br> Gather the elders<br> <i>And</i> all the inhabitants of the land<br> To the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God,<br> And cry out to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Alas for the day!<br> For the day of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is near,<br> And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Has not food been cut off before our eyes,<br> Gladness and joy from the house of our God?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>The seeds shrivel under their clods;<br> The storehouses are desolate,<br> The barns are torn down,<br> For the grain is dried up.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>How the beasts groan!<br> The herds of cattle wander aimlessly<br> Because there is no pasture for them;<br> Even the flocks of sheep suffer.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>To You, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, I cry;<br> For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness<br> And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Even the beasts of the field pant for You;<br> For the water brooks are dried up<br> And fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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