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Joel 1

Common English Bible CEB

1 The LORD's word that came to Joel, Pethuel's son:

2 Hear this, elders; pay attention, everyone 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 have your children tell their children, and their children tell their children.

4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten. And what the hopping locust left, the devouring locust has eaten.

5 Wake up, you who drink too much, and weep. Scream over the sweet wine, all you wine drinkers, because it is snatched from your mouth;

6 because a nation, powerful and beyond number, has invaded my land. Its teeth are like lions' teeth; its fangs are like those of a lioness.

7 It has destroyed my vines, splintered my fig trees, stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches have turned white.

8 Lament like a woman dressed in funeral clothing, one who has lost the husband of her youth.

9 The grain offering and the drink offering are gone from the LORD's temple. The priests and the LORD's ministers mourn.

10 The fields are devastated, the ground mourns; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine dries up, the olive oil fails.

11 Be shocked, you farmers; howl, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, for the crops of the field are destroyed.

12 The grapevine is dried up; the fig tree withers. Pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the field are dried up. Joy fades away from the people.

13 Dress for a funeral and grieve, you priests; lament, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in funeral clothing, servants of my God, because the grain offering and the drink offering have gone from the temple of your God.

14 Demand a fast, request a special assembly. Gather the elders and all the land's people to the temple of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

15 What a terrible day! The day of the LORD is near; it comes like chaos from the Almighty.

16 Isn't the food cut off right before our eyes? Aren't joy and gladness also gone from our God's house?

17 The grain shrivels under the shovels; the barns are empty. The granaries are in ruin because the grain has dried up.

18 How the animals groan! Herds of cattle are in distress because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep pant.

19 To you, LORD, I cry, for fire has completely destroyed the pastures of the wilderness; and flames have burned all the trees of the field.

20 Even the field's wild animals cry to you because the streams have dried up; the fire has completely destroyed the meadows of the wilderness.

English Standard Version ESV

1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:

2 Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

3 Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.

5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

6 For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

7 It has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white.

8 Lament like a virginwearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.

9 The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD.

10 The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes.

11 Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

12 The vine dries up; the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man.

13 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

14 Consecrate 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 out to the LORD.

15 Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

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

17 The seed shrivels under the clods; the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are torn down because the grain has dried up.

18 How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer.

19 To you, O LORD, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.

20 Even the beasts of the field pant for you because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.