JOEL
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The Devastation of Locusts
And listen, all inhabitants of the land.
CJer 30:7; Joel 2:2Has anything like this happened in your days
Or in your fathers’ days?
3 AEx 10:2; Ps 78:4Tell your sons about it,
And let your sons tell their sons,
And their sons the next generation.
4 What the ADeut 28:38; Joel 2:25; Amos 4:9gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten;
And what the BNah 3:15, 16swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten;
And what the creeping locust has left, the CIs 33:4stripping locust has eaten.
5 Awake, AJoel 3:3drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you wine drinkers,
On account of the sweet wine
That is BIs 32:10cut off from your mouth.
Mighty and without number;
BRev 9:8Its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has AIs 5:6; Amos 4:9made my vine a waste
And my fig tree 1Or a stumpsplinters.
It has stripped them bare and cast them away;
Their branches have become white.
For the bridegroom of her youth.
9 The AHos 9:4; Joel 1:13; 2:14grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
From the house of the Loʀᴅ.
The BJoel 2:17priests mourn,
The ministers of the Loʀᴅ.
10 The field is AIs 24:4, 7ruined,
BJer 12:11The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil 1Lit wastes awayfails.
Wail, O vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the BIs 17:11; Jer 9:12harvest of the field is destroyed.
12 The AJoel 1:10; Hab 3:17vine dries up
And the fig tree 1Lit wastes awayfails;
All the trees of the field dry up.
Indeed, EIs 16:10; 24:11; Jer 48:33rejoicing dries up
From the sons of men.
And lament, O priests;
BJer 9:10Wail, O ministers of the altar!
Come, C1 Kin 21:27spend 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
14 AJoel 2:15, 16Consecrate a fast,
Proclaim a BLev 23:36solemn assembly;
Gather the elders
And all the inhabitants of the land
To the house of the Loʀᴅ your God,
And CJon 3:8cry out to the Loʀᴅ.
15 AIs 13:9; Jer 30:7; Amos 5:16Alas for the day!
For the BJoel 2:1, 11, 31day of the Loʀᴅ is near,
And it will come as CIs 13:6; Ezek 7:2-12destruction from the 1Heb ShaddaiAlmighty.
16 Has not AIs 3:7; Amos 4:6food been cut off before our eyes,
Gladness and BDeut 12:7; Ps 43:4joy from the house of our God?
The storehouses are desolate,
The barns are torn down,
For the grain is dried up.
18 How A1 Kin 8:5; Jer 12:4; 14:5, 6; Hos 4:3the beasts groan!
The herds of cattle wander aimlessly
Because there is no pasture for them;
Even the flocks of sheep 1Lit bear punishmentsuffer.
19 APs 50:15; Mic 7:7To You, O Loʀᴅ, I cry;
For BJer 9:10; Amos 7:4fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness
And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.
For the B1 Kin 17:7; 18:5water brooks are dried up
And fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
A1:1 Jer 1:2; Ezek 1:3; Hos 1:1
A1:4 Deut 28:38; Joel 2:25; Amos 4:9
11:6 Lit come up against
11:7 Or a stump
11:10 Lit wastes away
11:11 Or The farmers are ashamed, The vinedressers wail
11:12 Lit wastes away
21:12 Or apricot
E1:12 Is 16:10; 24:11; Jer 48:33
A1:14 Joel 2:15, 16
A1:15 Is 13:9; Jer 30:7; Amos 5:16
11:15 Heb Shaddai
11:17 Or dried figs
21:17 Or shovels
A1:18 1 Kin 8:5; Jer 12:4; 14:5, 6; Hos 4:3
11:18 Lit bear punishment
11:20 Lit long for
A1:20 Ps 104:21; 147:9; Joel 1:18