New American Standard Bible 2020

Joel 1:2-15

2 1Hear this, you 2elders, And listen, all inhabitants of the land. 3Has anything like this happened in your days, Or in your fathers’ days?3 4Tell your sons about it, And have your sons tell their sons, And their sons the next generation.

4What the 5gnawing locust has left, the 6swarming locust has eaten; And what the 7swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the 8stripping locust has eaten.5Awake, 9you heavy drinkers, and weep; And wail, all you wine drinkers, Because of the sweet wine, For it has been 10eliminated from your mouth.6For a 11nation has 12invaded my land, Mighty and without number; 13Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it has the jaws of a lioness.7It has 14made my vine a waste And my fig tree a stump. It has stripped them bare and hurled them away; Their branches have become white.

8 15Wail like a virgin 16clothed with sackcloth For the groom of her youth.9The 17grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off From the house of the Lord. The 18priests mourn, The ministers of the Lord.10The field is 19ruined, 20The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine has dried up, Fresh oil has 21failed.11 22Be ashamed, you farm workers, Wail, you vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the 23harvest of the field is destroyed.12The 24vine has dried up And the fig tree has withered; The 25pomegranate, the 26palm also, and the 27apple tree, All the trees of the field have dried up. Indeed, 28joy has dried up From the sons of mankind.

13 29Put on sackcloth And mourn, you priests; 30Wail, you ministers of the altar! Come, 31spend the night in sackcloth, You ministers of my God, For the grain offering and the drink offering Have been withheld from the house of your God.14 32Consecrate a fast, Proclaim a 33solemn assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land To the house of the Lord your God, And 34cry out to the Lord.15 35Woe for the day! For the 36day of the Lord is near, And it will come as 37destruction from the 38Almighty.

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Notes

1. Joel 1:2 Hos 4:1; 5:1 ↩
2. Joel 1:2 Job 8:8; Joel 1:14 ↩
3. Joel 1:2 Jer 30:7; Joel 2:2 ↩
4. Joel 1:3 Ex 10:2; Ps 78:4 ↩
5. Joel 1:4 Deut 28:38; Joel 2:25; Amos 4:9 ↩
6. Joel 1:4 Or migratory ↩
7. Joel 1:4 Nah 3:15, 16 ↩
8. Joel 1:4 Is 33:4 ↩
9. Joel 1:5 Joel 3:3 ↩
10. Joel 1:5 Is 32:10 ↩
11. Joel 1:6 Joel 2:2, 11, 25 ↩
12. Joel 1:6 Lit gone up against ↩
13. Joel 1:6 Rev 9:8 ↩
14. Joel 1:7 Is 5:6; Amos 4:9 ↩
15. Joel 1:8 Is 22:12 ↩
16. Joel 1:8 Joel 1:13; Amos 8:10 ↩
17. Joel 1:9 Hos 9:4; Joel 1:13; 2:14 ↩
18. Joel 1:9 Joel 2:17 ↩
19. Joel 1:10 Is 24:4, 7 ↩
20. Joel 1:10 Jer 12:11 ↩
21. Joel 1:10 Lit dried out ↩
22. Joel 1:11 Jer 14:4; Amos 5:16 ↩
23. Joel 1:11 Is 17:11; Jer 9:12 ↩
24. Joel 1:12 Joel 1:10; Hab 3:17 ↩
25. Joel 1:12 Hag 2:19 ↩
26. Joel 1:12 Song 7:8 ↩
27. Joel 1:12 Song 2:3 ↩
28. Joel 1:12 Is 16:10; 24:11; Jer 48:33 ↩
29. Joel 1:13 Jer 4:8; Ezek 7:18 ↩
30. Joel 1:13 Jer 9:10 ↩
31. Joel 1:13 1 Kin 21:27 ↩
32. Joel 1:14 Joel 2:15, 16 ↩
33. Joel 1:14 Lev 23:36 ↩
34. Joel 1:14 Jon 3:8 ↩
35. Joel 1:15 Is 13:9; Jer 30:7; Amos 5:16 ↩
36. Joel 1:15 Joel 2:1, 11, 31 ↩
37. Joel 1:15 Is 13:6; Ezek 7:2-12 ↩
38. Joel 1:15 Heb Shaddai ↩

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