New American Standard Bible 1995

Joel 1:1-10

1The 1word of the Lord that came to 2Joel, the son of Pethuel:2 3Hear this, O 4elders, And listen, all inhabitants of the land. 5Has anything like this happened in your days Or in your fathers’ days?3 6Tell 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.

8 17Wail 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.

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1. Joel 1:1 Jer 1:2; Ezek 1:3; Hos 1:1 ↩
2. Joel 1:1 Acts 2:16 ↩
3. Joel 1:2 Hos 4:1; 5:1 ↩
4. Joel 1:2 Job 8:8; Joel 1:14 ↩
5. Joel 1:2 Jer 30:7; Joel 2:2 ↩
6. Joel 1:3 Ex 10:2; Ps 78:4 ↩
7. Joel 1:4 Deut 28:38; Joel 2:25; Amos 4:9 ↩
8. Joel 1:4 Nah 3:15, 16 ↩
9. Joel 1:4 Is 33:4 ↩
10. Joel 1:5 Joel 3:3 ↩
11. Joel 1:5 Is 32:10 ↩
12. Joel 1:6 Joel 2:2, 11, 25 ↩
13. Joel 1:6 Lit come up against ↩
14. Joel 1:6 Rev 9:8 ↩
15. Joel 1:7 Is 5:6; Amos 4:9 ↩
16. Joel 1:7 Or a stump ↩
17. Joel 1:8 Is 22:12 ↩
18. Joel 1:8 Joel 1:13; Amos 8:10 ↩
19. Joel 1:9 Hos 9:4; Joel 1:13; 2:14 ↩
20. Joel 1:9 Joel 2:17 ↩
21. Joel 1:10 Is 24:4, 7 ↩
22. Joel 1:10 Jer 12:11 ↩
23. Joel 1:10 Lit wastes away ↩

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