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1:1  The word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:
1:2  Hear this, O elders, And give ear, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days Or in your fathers’ days?
1:4  What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has consumed; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has consumed; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has consumed.
1:5  Awake, drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you wine drinkers, On account of the sweet wine That is cut off from your mouth.
1:6  For a nation has come up against my land, Mighty and without number; Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it has the fangs of a lioness.
1:7  It has made my vine a desolation And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white.
1:8  Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.
1:9  The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of Yahweh. The priests mourn, The ministers of Yahweh.
1:10  The field is destroyed; The land mourns, For the grain is destroyed, The new wine dries up, Fresh oil fails.
1:11  Be ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley, Because the harvest of the field perishes.
1:12  The vine dries up, And the fig tree fails; The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree, All the trees of the field dry up. Indeed, rejoicing dries up From the sons of men.
1:13  Gird yourselves with sackcloth And lament, O priests; Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God; For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.
1:14  Set apart a fast as holy, Call for a solemn assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land To the house of Yahweh your God, And cry out to Yahweh.
1:15  Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is near, And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
1:16  Has not food been cut off before our eyes, Gladness and joy from the house of our God?
1:17  The seeds shrivel under their clods; The storehouses are desolate; The barns are pulled down, For the grain is dried up.
1:18  How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle wander aimlessly Because there is no pasture for them; Even the flocks of sheep suffer.
1:19  To You, O Yahweh, I cry; For fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness, And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.
1:20  Even the beasts of the field pant for You; For the water brooks are dried up, And fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness.