Joel 1 - New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)

The Devastation of Locusts

1 The (A)word of the Lord that came to (B)Joel, the son of Pethuel:

2 (C)Hear this, O (D)elders,
And listen, all inhabitants of the land.
(E)Has anything like this happened in your days
Or in your fathers’ days?
3 (F)Tell your sons about it,
And let your sons tell their sons,
And their sons the next generation.

4 What the (G)gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten;
And what the (H)swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten;
And what the creeping locust has left, the (I)stripping locust has eaten.
5 Awake, (J)drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you wine drinkers,
On account of the sweet wine
That is (K)cut off from your mouth.
6 For a (L)nation has [a]invaded my land,
Mighty and without number;
(M)Its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has (N)made my vine a waste
And my fig tree [b]splinters.
It has stripped them bare and cast them away;
Their branches have become white.

8 (O)Wail like a virgin (P)girded with sackcloth
For the bridegroom of her youth.
9 The (Q)grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
From the house of the Lord.
The (R)priests mourn,
The ministers of the Lord.
10 The field is (S)ruined,
(T)The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil [c]fails.
11 [d](U)Be ashamed, O farmers,
Wail, O vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the (V)harvest of the field is destroyed.
12 The (W)vine dries up
And the fig tree [e]fails;
The (X)pomegranate, the (Y)palm also, and the [f](Z)apple tree,
All the trees of the field dry up.
Indeed, (AA)rejoicing dries up
From the sons of men.

13 (AB)Gird yourselves with sackcloth
And lament, O priests;
(AC)Wail, O ministers of the altar!
Come, (AD)spend 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 (AE)Consecrate a fast,
Proclaim a (AF)solemn assembly;
Gather the elders
And all the inhabitants of the land
To the house of the Lord your God,
And (AG)cry out to the Lord.
15 (AH)Alas for the day!
For the (AI)day of the Lord is near,
And it will come as (AJ)destruction from the [g]Almighty.
16 Has not (AK)food been cut off before our eyes,
Gladness and (AL)joy from the house of our God?
17 The [h](AM)seeds shrivel under their [i]clods;
The storehouses are desolate,
The barns are torn down,
For the grain is dried up.
18 How (AN)the beasts groan!
The herds of cattle wander aimlessly
Because there is no pasture for them;
Even the flocks of sheep [j]suffer.
19 (AO)To You, O Lord, I cry;
For (AP)fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness
And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.
20 Even the beasts of the field [k](AQ)pant for You;
For the (AR)water brooks are dried up
And fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:6 Lit come up against
  2. Joel 1:7 Or a stump
  3. Joel 1:10 Lit wastes away
  4. Joel 1:11 Or The farmers are ashamed, The vinedressers wail
  5. Joel 1:12 Lit wastes away
  6. Joel 1:12 Or apricot
  7. Joel 1:15 Heb Shaddai
  8. Joel 1:17 Or dried figs
  9. Joel 1:17 Or shovels
  10. Joel 1:18 Lit bear punishment
  11. Joel 1:20 Lit long for

Cross references

  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 : 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 1:11 : Jer 14:4; Amos 5:16
  22. Joel 1:11 : Is 17:11; Jer 9:12
  23. Joel 1:12 : Joel 1:10; Hab 3:17
  24. Joel 1:12 : Hag 2:19
  25. Joel 1:12 : Song 7:8
  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 1:16 : Is 3:7; Amos 4:6
  38. Joel 1:16 : Deut 12:7; Ps 43:4
  39. Joel 1:17 : Is 17:10, 11
  40. Joel 1:18 : 1 Kin 8:5; Jer 12:4; 14:5, 6; Hos 4:3
  41. Joel 1:19 : Ps 50:15; Mic 7:7
  42. Joel 1:19 : Jer 9:10; Amos 7:4
  43. Joel 1:20 : Ps 104:21; 147:9; Joel 1:18
  44. Joel 1:20 : 1 Kin 17:7; 18:5

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