Joel 1:3

3 Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

Joel 1:3 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
English Standard Version (ESV)
3 Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
New Living Translation (NLT)
3 Tell your children about it in the years to come, and let your children tell their children. Pass the story down from generation to generation.
The Message Bible (MSG)
3 Make sure you tell your children, and your children tell their children, And their children their children. Don't let this message die out.
American Standard Version (ASV)
3 Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
3 Tell your children about it. Have your children tell their children. Have your grandchildren tell their children.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
3 Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children the next generation.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
3 Tell your children about it. Let them tell their children. And let their children tell it to those who live after them.

Joel 1:3 Meaning and Commentary

Joel 1:3

Tell ye your children of it
Give them a particular account of it; describe the creatures and their number as near as you can; say when they begun and how long they continued, and what devastations they made, and what was the cause and reason of such a judgment, your sins and transgressions: and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children other
generation;
or, "to the generation following" F12; let it be handed down from one generation to another that it may be a caution to future posterity how they behave and lest they bring down the like awful judgments on them. What this referred to was as follows:


FOOTNOTES:

F12 (rxa rwdl) "posteritati sequenti", Vatablus; "generationi posterae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Tarnovius.

Joel 1:3 In-Context

1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
2 Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?
3 Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
4 What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten.
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips.

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Exodus 10:2; Psalms 78:4
  • 2. S Psalms 71:18
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