Joel Chapter 1

• Joel 1:1
  The LORD’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
• Joel 1:2
  Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
• Joel 1:3
  Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.
• Joel 1:4
  What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has lef...
• Joel 1:5
  Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
• Joel 1:6
  For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
• Joel 1:7
  He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
• Joel 1:8
  Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
• Joel 1:9
  The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house. The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
• Joel 1:10
  The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
• Joel 1:11
  Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.
• Joel 1:12
  The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered— the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are...
• Joel 1:13
  Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal off...
• Joel 1:14
  Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD...
• Joel 1:15
  Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
• Joel 1:16
  Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
• Joel 1:17
  The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
• Joel 1:18
  How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
• Joel 1:19
  LORD, I cry to you, for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
• Joel 1:20
  Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.