Joel 1:13-20

A Call to Lamentation

13 Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
14 Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
15 Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[a]
16 Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods.[b]The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.
18 How the cattle moan! The herds mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
19 To you, LORD, I call, for fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.
20 Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness.

Cross References 22

  • 1. S Genesis 37:34; S Jeremiah 4:8
  • 2. Joel 2:17
  • 3. ver 9; S Hosea 9:4; Joel 2:14
  • 4. S 2 Chronicles 20:3
  • 5. S Hosea 4:1
  • 6. John 3:8
  • 7. 2 Chronicles 20:4
  • 8. S Isaiah 2:12; Jeremiah 30:7; S Jeremiah 46:10; S Ezekiel 30:3; Malachi 4:5
  • 9. Isaiah 13:6,9; Joel 2:1,11,31; Joel 3:14; Amos 5:18; Zephaniah 1:14; Zechariah 14:1
  • 10. S Genesis 17:1
  • 11. Isaiah 3:7
  • 12. S Psalms 51:8
  • 13. Deuteronomy 12:7
  • 14. S Isaiah 17:10-11
  • 15. S Genesis 47:4
  • 16. S Jeremiah 9:10
  • 17. Psalms 50:15
  • 18. S Psalms 97:3; Amos 7:4
  • 19. S Jeremiah 9:10
  • 20. S Psalms 42:1; S Psalms 104:21
  • 21. 1 Kings 17:7
  • 22. Joel 2:22

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Hebrew "Shaddai"
  • [b]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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