Berean Standard Bible
Joel 1:2-15
2Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?3Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.4What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.1
5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep;wail, all you drinkers of wine,because of the sweet wine,for it has been cut off from your mouth.6For a nation has invaded My land,powerful and without number;its teeth are the teeth of a lion,and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.7It has laid waste My grapevineand splintered My fig tree.It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away;the branches have turned white.
8Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth,grieving for the husband of her youth.9Grain and drink offerings have been cut offfrom the house of the LORD;the priests are in mourning,those who minister before the LORD.10The field is ruined;the land mourns.For the grain is destroyed,the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.11Be dismayed, O farmers,wail, O vinedressers,over the wheat and barley,because the harvest of the field has perished.12The grapevine is dried up,and the fig tree is withered;the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered.Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests;wail, O ministers of the altar.Come, spend the night in sackcloth,O ministers of my God,because the grain and drink offeringsare withheld from the house of your God.14Consecrate a fast;proclaim a solemn assembly!Gather the eldersand all the residents of the landto the house of the LORD your God,and cry out to the LORD.
Notes
Commentaries on Joel 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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