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1:1  This is the Lord's message to Joel son of Pethuel.
1:2  Pay attention, you older people; everyone in Judah, listen. Has anything like this ever happened in your time or the time of your ancestors?
1:4  Swarm after swarm of locusts settled on the crops; what one swarm left, the next swarm devoured.
1:5  Wake up and weep, you drunkards; cry, you wine-drinkers; the grapes for making new wine have been destroyed.
1:6  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.
1:7  They have destroyed our grapevines and chewed up our fig trees. They have stripped off the bark, till the branches are white.
1:8  Cry, you people, like a young woman who mourns the death of the man she was going to marry.
1:9  There is no grain or wine to offer in the Temple; the priests mourn because they have no offerings for the Lord.
1:10  The fields are bare; the ground mourns because the grain is destroyed, the grapes are dried up, and the olive trees are withered.
1:11  Grieve, you farmers; cry, you that take care of the vineyards, because the wheat, the barley, yes all the crops are destroyed.
1:12  The grapevines and fig trees have withered; all the fruit trees have wilted and died. The joy of the people is gone.
1:13  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.
1:14  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!
1:15  The day of the Lord is near, the day when the Almighty brings destruction. What terror that day will bring!
1:16  We look on helpless as our crops are destroyed. There is no joy in the Temple of our God.
1:17  The seeds die in the dry earth. There is no grain to be stored, and so the empty granaries are in ruins.
1:18  The cattle are bellowing in distress because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep also suffer.
1:19  I cry out to you, Lord, because the pastures and trees are dried up, as though a fire had burned them.
1:20  Even the wild animals cry out to you because the streams have become dry.