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1:1  The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
1:2  Hear this, you aged men, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this happened in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
1:3  Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
1:4  That which the cutting locust has left has the swarming locust eaten; and that which the swarming locust has left has the crawling locust eaten; and that which the crawling locust has left has the consuming locust eaten.
1:5  Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
1:6  For a nation has come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
1:7  He has laid my vine waste, and splintered my fig tree: he has stripped it bare, and cast it away; its branches are made white.
1:8  Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
1:9  The grain offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
1:10  The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the grain is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
1:11  Be ashamed, O you farmers; wail, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.
1:12  The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy has withered away from the sons of men.
1:13  Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: wail, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.
1:14  Sanctify you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.
1:15  Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
1:16  Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
1:17  The seed shrivels under the clods, the storehouses are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain has withered.
1:18  How the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
1:19  O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
1:20  The beasts of the field cry also unto you: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.