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New American Standard Bible 1995

Joel 1

The Devastation of Locusts

1The 1word of the Lord that came to 2Joel, the son of Pethuel:23Hear this, O 4elders, And listen, all inhabitants of the land. 5Has anything like this happened in your days Or in your fathers’ days?36Tell your sons about it, And let your sons tell their sons, And their sons the next generation.

4What the 7gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the 8swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the 9stripping locust has eaten.5Awake, 10drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you wine drinkers, On account of the sweet wine That is 11cut off from your mouth.6For a 12nation has 13invaded my land, Mighty and without number; 14Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it has the fangs of a lioness.7It has 15made my vine a waste And my fig tree 16splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white.

817Wail like a virgin 18girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.9The 19grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of the Lord. The 20priests mourn, The ministers of the Lord.10The field is 21ruined, 22The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine dries up, Fresh oil 23fails.112425Be ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the 26harvest of the field is destroyed.12The 27vine dries up And the fig tree 28fails; The 29pomegranate, the 30palm also, and the 3132apple tree, All the trees of the field dry up. Indeed, 33rejoicing dries up From the sons of men.

1334Gird yourselves with sackcloth And lament, O priests; 35Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, 36spend the night in sackcloth O ministers of my God, For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.

Starvation and Drought

1437Consecrate a fast, Proclaim a 38solemn assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land To the house of the Lord your God, And 39cry out to the Lord.1540Alas for the day! For the 41day of the Lord is near, And it will come as 42destruction from the 43Almighty.16Has not 44food been cut off before our eyes, Gladness and 45joy from the house of our God?17The 4647seeds shrivel under their 48clods; The storehouses are desolate, The barns are torn down, For the grain is dried up.18How 49the beasts groan! The herds of cattle wander aimlessly Because there is no pasture for them; Even the flocks of sheep 50suffer.1951To You, O Lord, I cry; For 52fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.20Even the beasts of the field 5354pant for You; For the 55water brooks are dried up And fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Notes

  1. 1. Joel 1:1 Jer 1:2; Ezek 1:3; Hos 1:1 ↩
  2. 2. Joel 1:1 Acts 2:16 ↩
  3. 3. Joel 1:2 Hos 4:1; 5:1 ↩
  4. 4. Joel 1:2 Job 8:8; Joel 1:14 ↩
  5. 5. Joel 1:2 Jer 30:7; Joel 2:2 ↩
  6. 6. Joel 1:3 Ex 10:2; Ps 78:4 ↩
  7. 7. Joel 1:4 Deut 28:38; Joel 2:25; Amos 4:9 ↩
  8. 8. Joel 1:4 Nah 3:15, 16 ↩
  9. 9. Joel 1:4 Is 33:4 ↩
  10. 10. Joel 1:5 Joel 3:3 ↩
  11. 11. Joel 1:5 Is 32:10 ↩
  12. 12. Joel 1:6 Joel 2:2, 11, 25 ↩
  13. 13. Joel 1:6 Lit come up against ↩
  14. 14. Joel 1:6 Rev 9:8 ↩
  15. 15. Joel 1:7 Is 5:6; Amos 4:9 ↩
  16. 16. Joel 1:7 Or a stump ↩
  17. 17. Joel 1:8 Is 22:12 ↩
  18. 18. Joel 1:8 Joel 1:13; Amos 8:10 ↩
  19. 19. Joel 1:9 Hos 9:4; Joel 1:13; 2:14 ↩
  20. 20. Joel 1:9 Joel 2:17 ↩
  21. 21. Joel 1:10 Is 24:4, 7 ↩
  22. 22. Joel 1:10 Jer 12:11 ↩
  23. 23. Joel 1:10 Lit wastes away ↩
  24. 24. Joel 1:11 Or The farmers are ashamed, The vinedressers wail ↩
  25. 25. Joel 1:11 Jer 14:4; Amos 5:16 ↩
  26. 26. Joel 1:11 Is 17:11; Jer 9:12 ↩
  27. 27. Joel 1:12 Joel 1:10; Hab 3:17 ↩
  28. 28. Joel 1:12 Lit wastes away ↩
  29. 29. Joel 1:12 Hag 2:19 ↩
  30. 30. Joel 1:12 Song 7:8 ↩
  31. 31. Joel 1:12 Or apricot ↩
  32. 32. Joel 1:12 Song 2:3 ↩
  33. 33. Joel 1:12 Is 16:10; 24:11; Jer 48:33 ↩
  34. 34. Joel 1:13 Jer 4:8; Ezek 7:18 ↩
  35. 35. Joel 1:13 Jer 9:10 ↩
  36. 36. Joel 1:13 1 Kin 21:27 ↩
  37. 37. Joel 1:14 Joel 2:15, 16 ↩
  38. 38. Joel 1:14 Lev 23:36 ↩
  39. 39. Joel 1:14 Jon 3:8 ↩
  40. 40. Joel 1:15 Is 13:9; Jer 30:7; Amos 5:16 ↩
  41. 41. Joel 1:15 Joel 2:1, 11, 31 ↩
  42. 42. Joel 1:15 Is 13:6; Ezek 7:2-12 ↩
  43. 43. Joel 1:15 Heb Shaddai ↩
  44. 44. Joel 1:16 Is 3:7; Amos 4:6 ↩
  45. 45. Joel 1:16 Deut 12:7; Ps 43:4 ↩
  46. 46. Joel 1:17 Or dried figs ↩
  47. 47. Joel 1:17 Is 17:10, 11 ↩
  48. 48. Joel 1:17 Or shovels ↩
  49. 49. Joel 1:18 1 Kin 8:5; Jer 12:4; 14:5, 6; Hos 4:3 ↩
  50. 50. Joel 1:18 Lit bear punishment ↩
  51. 51. Joel 1:19 Ps 50:15; Mic 7:7 ↩
  52. 52. Joel 1:19 Jer 9:10; Amos 7:4 ↩
  53. 53. Joel 1:20 Lit long for ↩
  54. 54. Joel 1:20 Ps 104:21; 147:9; Joel 1:18 ↩
  55. 55. Joel 1:20 1 Kin 17:7; 18:5 ↩

Commentaries on Joel 1

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