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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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/joel/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> that came to Joel son of Pethuel.</p> <p class="sectionhead">An Invasion of Locusts</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Hear this, you elders;</p><p class="line2">listen, all who live in the land.</p><p class="line1">Has anything like this ever happened in your days</p><p class="line2">or in the days of your ancestors?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Tell it to your children,</p><p class="line2">and let your children tell it to their children,</p><p class="line2">and their children to the next generation.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>What the locust swarm has left</p><p class="line2">the great locusts have eaten;</p><p class="line1">what the great locusts have left</p><p class="line2">the young locusts have eaten;</p><p class="line1">what the young locusts have left</p><p class="line2">other locusts <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.">a</a></sup></span> have eaten.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!</p><p class="line2">Wail, all you drinkers of wine;</p><p class="line1">wail because of the new wine,</p><p class="line2">for it has been snatched from your lips.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>A nation has invaded my land,</p><p class="line2">a mighty army without number;</p><p class="line1">it has the teeth of a lion,</p><p class="line2">the fangs of a lioness.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>It has laid waste my vines</p><p class="line2">and ruined my fig trees.</p><p class="line1">It has stripped off their bark</p><p class="line2">and thrown it away,</p><p class="line2">leaving their branches white.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth</p><p class="line2">grieving for the betrothed of her youth.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Grain offerings and drink offerings</p><p class="line2">are cut off from the house of the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p><p class="line1">The priests are in mourning,</p><p class="line2">those who minister before the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The fields are ruined,</p><p class="line2">the ground is dried up;</p><p class="line1">the grain is destroyed,</p><p class="line2">the new wine is dried up,</p><p class="line2">the olive oil fails.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Despair, you farmers,</p><p class="line2">wail, you vine growers;</p><p class="line1">grieve for the wheat and the barley,</p><p class="line2">because the harvest of the field is destroyed.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The vine is dried up</p><p class="line2">and the fig tree is withered;</p><p class="line1">the pomegranate, the palm and the apple <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or possibly apricot">b</a></sup></span> tree—</p><p class="line2">all the trees of the field—are dried up.</p><p class="line1">Surely the people’s joy</p><p class="line2">is withered away.</p></div> <p class="sectionhead">A Call to Lamentation</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn;</p><p class="line2">wail, you who minister before the altar.</p><p class="line1">Come, spend the night in sackcloth,</p><p class="line2">you who minister before my God;</p><p class="line1">for the grain offerings and drink offerings</p><p class="line2">are withheld from the house of your God.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Declare a holy fast;</p><p class="line2">call a sacred assembly.</p><p class="line1">Summon the elders</p><p class="line2">and all who live in the land</p><p class="line1">to the house of the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God,</p><p class="line2">and cry out to the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Alas for that day!</p><p class="line2">For the day of the <span class="name">Lord</span> is near;</p><p class="line2">it will come like destruction from the Almighty. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Shaddai">c</a></sup></span> </p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Has not the food been cut off</p><p class="line2">before our very eyes—</p><p class="line1">joy and gladness</p><p class="line2">from the house of our God?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The seeds are shriveled</p><p class="line2">beneath the clods. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.">d</a></sup></span> </p><p class="line1">The storehouses are in ruins,</p><p class="line2">the granaries have been broken down,</p><p class="line2">for the grain has dried up.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>How the cattle moan!</p><p class="line2">The herds mill about</p><p class="line1">because they have no pasture;</p><p class="line2">even the flocks of sheep are suffering.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>To you, <span class="name">Lord</span>, I call,</p><p class="line2">for fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness</p><p class="line2">and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Even the wild animals pant for you;</p><p class="line2">the streams of water have dried up</p><p class="line2">and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotebot">The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or possibly <i>apricot</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>Shaddai</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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