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1:1  The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
1:2  Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
1:4  That which the palmer worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
1:5  Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye 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 hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
1:7  He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree; he hath made it clean bare and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
1:8  Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
1:9  The meat 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 mourneth, for the corn is wasted; the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
1:11  Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.
1:12  The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree—even all the trees of the field are withered, because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
1:13  Gird yourselves and lament, ye priests; howl, ye ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God; for the meat offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.
1:14  Sanctify ye 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 meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
1:17  The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
1:18  How the beasts do 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 Thee will I cry! For the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
1:20  The beasts of the field cry also unto Thee; for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.