New American Standard Bible 1995

Joel 1:4-20

4What the 1gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the 2swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the 3stripping locust has eaten.5Awake, 4drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you wine drinkers, On account of the sweet wine That is 5cut off from your mouth.6For a 6nation has 7invaded my land, Mighty and without number; 8Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it has the fangs of a lioness.7It has 9made my vine a waste And my fig tree 10splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white.

8 11Wail like a virgin 12girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.9The 13grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of the Lord. The 14priests mourn, The ministers of the Lord.10The field is 15ruined, 16The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine dries up, Fresh oil 17fails.11 18 19Be ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the 20harvest of the field is destroyed.12The 21vine dries up And the fig tree 22fails; The 23pomegranate, the 24palm also, and the 25 26apple tree, All the trees of the field dry up. Indeed, 27rejoicing dries up From the sons of men.

13 28Gird yourselves with sackcloth And lament, O priests; 29Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, 30spend 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.14 31Consecrate a fast, Proclaim a 32solemn assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land To the house of the Lord your God, And 33cry out to the Lord.15 34Alas for the day! For the 35day of the Lord is near, And it will come as 36destruction from the 37Almighty.16Has not 38food been cut off before our eyes, Gladness and 39joy from the house of our God?17The 40 41seeds shrivel under their 42clods; The storehouses are desolate, The barns are torn down, For the grain is dried up.18How 43the beasts groan! The herds of cattle wander aimlessly Because there is no pasture for them; Even the flocks of sheep 44suffer.19 45To You, O Lord, I cry; For 46fire 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 47 48pant for You; For the 49water brooks are dried up And fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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

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