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Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw teeth of a great lion.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.</p> <p class="hdg">A Call to Mourning</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The meal offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen, howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The vine is withered, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.</p> <a name="13" id="13"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Repentance<br /><p 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>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; howl, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>O LORD, to thee do I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee: for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/joel/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>