Joel 1 NKJV

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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 King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/joel/1.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>The Locust Plague in Judah</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Joel-1-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.</span></p> <h3> The Land Laid Waste</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Joel-1-2"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Hear this, you elders,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-2">And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land!</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-2">Has <i>anything like</i> this happened in your days,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-2">Or even in the days of your fathers?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Tell your children about it,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-3"><i>Let</i> your children <i>tell</i> their children,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-3">And their children another generation.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>What the chewing <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>locust left, the swarming locust has eaten;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-4">What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-4">And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Awake, you drunkards, and weep;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-5">And wail, all you drinkers of wine,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-5">Because of the new wine,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-5">For it has been cut off from your mouth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For a nation has come up against My land,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-6">Strong, and without number;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-6">His teeth <i>are</i> the teeth of a lion,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-6">And he has the fangs of a <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>fierce lion.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He has laid waste My vine,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-7">And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>ruined My fig tree;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-7">He has stripped it bare and thrown <i>it</i> away;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-7">Its branches are made white.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-8">For the husband of her youth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The grain offering and the drink offering</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-9">Have been cut off from the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-9">The priests mourn, who minister to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The field is wasted,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-10">The land mourns;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-10">For the grain is ruined,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-10">The new wine is dried up,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-10">The oil fails.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Be ashamed, you farmers,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-11">Wail, you vinedressers,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-11">For the wheat and the barley;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-11">Because the harvest of the field has perished.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The vine has dried up,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-12">And the fig tree has withered;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-12">The pomegranate tree,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-12">The palm tree also,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-12">And the apple tree—</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-12">All the trees of the field are withered;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-12">Surely joy has withered away from the sons of men.</span></p></div> <h3> Mourning for the Land</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Joel-1-13"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Gird yourselves and lament, you priests;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-13">Wail, you who minister before the altar;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-13">Come, lie all night in sackcloth,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-13">You who minister to my God;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-13">For the grain offering and the drink offering</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-13">Are withheld from the house of your God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Consecrate a fast,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-14">Call a sacred assembly;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-14">Gather the elders</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-14"><i>And</i> all the inhabitants of the land</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-14"><i>Into</i> the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-14">And cry out to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Alas for the day!</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-15">For the day of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> <i>is</i> at hand;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-15">It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Is not the food cut off before our eyes,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-16">Joy and gladness from the house of our God?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The seed shrivels under the clods,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-17">Storehouses are in shambles;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-17">Barns are broken down,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-17">For the grain has withered.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>How the animals groan!</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-18">The herds of cattle are restless,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-18">Because they have no pasture;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-18">Even the flocks of sheep <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>suffer punishment.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, to You I cry out;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-19">For fire has devoured the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>open pastures,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-19">And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The beasts of the field also cry out to You,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-20">For the water brooks are dried up,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-1-20">And fire has devoured the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>open pastures.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-22296a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 1:4">Joel 1:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Exact identity of these locusts unknown</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22298b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 1:6">Joel 1:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>lioness</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22299c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 1:7">Joel 1:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>splintered</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22310d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 1:18">Joel 1:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX, Vg. <i>are made desolate</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22311e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 1:19">Joel 1:19</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>pastures of the wilderness</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22312f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 1:20">Joel 1:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>pastures of the wilderness</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas 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