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Joel 1

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

2 Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

3 Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.

5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.

7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

8 Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

9 The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.

10 The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

11 The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

12 The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

13 Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

14 Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

15 Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

16 Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

18 What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

19 O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.

20 The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.

Good News Translation GNT

1 This is the Lord's message to Joel son of Pethuel.

2 Pay attention, you older people; everyone in Judah, listen. Has anything like this ever happened in your time or the time of your ancestors?

3 Tell your children about it; they will tell their children, who in turn will tell the next generation.

4 Swarm after swarm of locusts settled on the crops; what one swarm left, the next swarm devoured.

5 Wake up and weep, you drunkards; cry, you wine-drinkers; the grapes for making new wine have been destroyed.

6 An army of locusts has attacked our land; they are powerful and too many to count; their teeth are as sharp as those of a lion.

7 They have destroyed our grapevines and chewed up our fig trees. They have stripped off the bark, till the branches are white.

8 Cry, you people, like a young woman who mourns the death of the man she was going to marry.

9 There is no grain or wine to offer in the Temple; the priests mourn because they have no offerings for the Lord.

10 The fields are bare; the ground mourns because the grain is destroyed, the grapes are dried up, and the olive trees are withered.

11 Grieve, you farmers; cry, you that take care of the vineyards, because the wheat, the barley, yes all the crops are destroyed.

12 The grapevines and fig trees have withered; all the fruit trees have wilted and died. The joy of the people is gone.

13 Put on sackcloth and weep, you priests who serve at the altar! Go into the Temple and mourn all night! There is no grain or wine to offer your God.

14 Give orders for a fast; call an assembly! Gather the leaders and all the people of Judah into the Temple of the Lord your God and cry out to him!

15 The day of the Lord is near, the day when the Almighty brings destruction. What terror that day will bring!

16 We look on helpless as our crops are destroyed. There is no joy in the Temple of our God.

17 The seeds die in the dry earth. There is no grain to be stored, and so the empty granaries are in ruins.

18 The cattle are bellowing in distress because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep also suffer.

19 I cry out to you, Lord, because the pastures and trees are dried up, as though a fire had burned them.

20 Even the wild animals cry out to you because the streams have become dry.