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<A name="4"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Tell it to your children; <p class="indent2"> let your children tell it to their children, <p class="indent2"> and their children to the next generation. <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>What the devouring locust has left, <p class="indent2"> the swarming locust has eaten; <p class="indent1"> what the swarming locust has left, <p class="indent2"> the young locust has eaten; <p class="indent1"> and what the young locust has left, <p class="indent2"> the destroying locust has eaten.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; <p class="indent2"> wail, all you drinkers of wine, <p class="indent1"> because of the sweet wine, <p class="indent2"> for it has been cut off from your mouth. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For a nation has invaded My land, <p class="indent2"> powerful and without number; <p class="indent1"> its teeth are the teeth of a lion, <p class="indent2"> and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>It has laid waste My grapevine <p class="indent2"> and splintered My fig tree. <p class="indent1"> It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; <p class="indent2"> the branches have turned white. <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Mourning<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, <p class="indent2"> grieving for the husband of her youth. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Grain and drink offerings have been cut off <p class="indent2"> from the house of the LORD; <p class="indent1"> the priests are in mourning, <p class="indent2"> those who minister before the LORD. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The field is ruined; <p class="indent2"> the land mourns. <p class="indent1"> For the grain is destroyed, <p class="indent2"> the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Be dismayed, O farmers, <p class="indent2"> wail, O vinedressers, <p class="indent1"> over the wheat and barley, <p class="indent2"> because the harvest of the field has perished. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The grapevine is dried up, <p class="indent2"> and the fig tree is withered; <p class="indent1"> the pomegranate, palm, and apple—<p class="indent2"> all the trees of the orchard—are withered. <p class="indent2"> Surely the joy of mankind has dried up. <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Repentance<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../amos/5.htm#4">Amos 5:4–15</a>; <a href ="../zephaniah/2.htm">Zephaniah 2:1–3</a>; <a href ="../luke/13.htm">Luke 13:1–5</a>)</span><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; <p class="indent2"> wail, O ministers of the altar. <p class="indent1"> Come, spend the night in sackcloth, <p class="indent2"> O ministers of my God, <p class="indent1"> because the grain and drink offerings <p class="indent2"> are withheld from the house of your God. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Consecrate a fast; <p class="indent2"> proclaim a solemn assembly! <p class="indent1"> Gather the elders <p class="indent2"> and all the residents of the land <p class="indent1"> to the house of the LORD your God, <p class="indent2"> and cry out to the LORD. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Alas for the day! <p class="indent2"> For the Day of the LORD is near, <p class="indent1"> and it will come <p class="indent2"> as destruction from the Almighty.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Has not the food been cut off <p class="indent2"> before our very eyes—<p class="indent1"> joy and gladness <p class="indent2"> from the house of our God? <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; <p class="indent2"> the storehouses are in ruins; <p class="indent1"> the granaries are broken down, <p class="indent2"> for the grain has withered away. <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>How the cattle groan! <p class="indent2"> The herds wander in confusion <p class="indent1"> because they have no pasture. <p class="indent2"> Even the flocks of sheep are suffering. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>To You, O LORD, I call, <p class="indent2"> for fire has consumed the open pastures <p class="indent2"> and flames have scorched all the trees of the field. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Even the beasts of the field pant for You, <p class="indent2"> for the streams of water have dried up, <p class="indent2"> and fire has consumed the open pastures.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> The precise identification of the four kinds of locusts mentioned here is uncertain.<br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Hebrew <i>Shaddai</i><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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