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Joel 1

The Message Bible MSG

1 God's Message to Joel son of Pethuel:

2 Attention, elder statesmen! Listen closely, everyone, whoever and wherever you are! Have you ever heard of anything like this? Has anything like this ever happened before - ever?

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.

4 What the chewing locust left, the gobbling locust ate; What the gobbling locust left, the munching locust ate; What the munching locust left, the chomping locust ate.

5 Sober up, you drunks! Get in touch with reality - and weep! Your supply of booze is cut off. You're on the wagon, like it or not.

6 My country's being invaded by an army invincible, past numbering, Teeth like those of a lion, fangs like those of a tiger.

7 It has ruined my vineyards, stripped my orchards, And clear-cut the country. The landscape's a moonscape.

8 Weep like a young virgin dressed in black, mourning the loss of her fiancé.

9 Without grain and grapes, worship has been brought to a standstill in the Sanctuary of God. The priests are at a loss. God's ministers don't know what to do.

10 The fields are sterile. The very ground grieves. The wheat fields are lifeless, vineyards dried up, olive oil gone.

11 Dirt farmers, despair! Grape growers, wring your hands! Lament the loss of wheat and barley. All crops have failed.

12 Vineyards dried up, fig trees withered, Pomegranates, date palms, and apple trees - deadwood everywhere! And joy is dried up and withered in the hearts of the people. Nothing's Going On in the Place of Worship

13 And also you priests, put on your robes and join the outcry. You who lead people in worship, lead them in lament. Spend the night dressed in gunnysacks, you servants of my God. Nothing's going on in the place of worship, no offerings, no prayers - nothing.

14 Declare a holy fast, call a special meeting, get the leaders together, Round up everyone in the country. Get them into God's Sanctuary for serious prayer to God.

15 What a day! Doomsday! God's Judgment Day has come. The Strong God has arrived. This is serious business!

16 Food is just a memory at our tables, as are joy and singing from God's Sanctuary.

17 The seeds in the field are dead, barns deserted, Grain silos abandoned. Who needs them? The crops have failed!

18 The farm animals groan - oh, how they groan! The cattle mill around. There's nothing for them to eat. Not even the sheep find anything.

19 God! I pray, I cry out to you! The fields are burning up, The country is a dust bowl, forest and prairie fires rage unchecked.

20 Wild animals, dying of thirst, look to you for a drink. Springs and streams are dried up. The whole country is burning up.

New Living Translation NLT

1 The LORD gave this message to Joel son of Pethuel.

2 Hear this, you leaders of the people. Listen, all who live in the land. In all your history, has anything like this happened before?

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.

4 After the cutting locusts finished eating the crops, the swarming locusts took what was left! After them came the hopping locusts, and then the stripping locusts, too!

5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine-drinkers! All the grapes are ruined, and all your sweet wine is gone.

6 A vast army of locusts has invaded my land, a terrible army too numerous to count. Its teeth are like lions’ teeth, its fangs like those of a lioness.

7 It has destroyed my grapevines and ruined my fig trees, stripping their bark and destroying it, leaving the branches white and bare.

8 Weep like a bride dressed in black, mourning the death of her husband.

9 For there is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of the LORD . So the priests are in mourning. The ministers of the LORD are weeping.

10 The fields are ruined, the land is stripped bare. The grain is destroyed, the grapes have shriveled, and the olive oil is gone.

11 Despair, all you farmers! Wail, all you vine growers! Weep, because the wheat and barley— all the crops of the field—are ruined.

12 The grapevines have dried up, and the fig trees have withered. The pomegranate trees, palm trees, and apple trees— all the fruit trees—have dried up. And the people’s joy has dried up with them.

13 Dress yourselves in burlap and weep, you priests! Wail, you who serve before the altar! Come, spend the night in burlap, you ministers of my God. For there is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of your God.

14 Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Bring the leaders and all the people of the land into the Temple of the LORD your God, and cry out to him there.

15 The day of the LORD is near, the day when destruction comes from the Almighty. How terrible that day will be!

16 Our food disappears before our very eyes. No joyful celebrations are held in the house of our God.

17 The seeds die in the parched ground, and the grain crops fail. The barns stand empty, and granaries are abandoned.

18 How the animals moan with hunger! The herds of cattle wander about confused, because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep and goats bleat in misery.

19 LORD, help us! The fire has consumed the wilderness pastures, and flames have burned up all the trees.

20 Even the wild animals cry out to you because the streams have dried up, and fire has consumed the wilderness pastures.