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1:1  The word of the Lord, which came to Joel, son of Pethuel.
1:2  Hear this, elders, and give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has anything like this happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
1:4  What the fledging locust left, the adult locust has eaten; what the adult locust left, the larval locust has eaten; what the larval locust left, the hopper locust has eaten.
1:5  Awaken, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all wine-drinkers, because the sweet wine has been cut off from your lips.
1:6  For a nation powerful and innumerable has invaded my land; its teeth are like the teeth of a lion, like the fangs of a lioness.
1:7  It has despoiled my vine, and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off its bark and cast it away, leaving its branches white.
1:8  Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
1:9  The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests mourn, who are ministers to the Lord.
1:10  The field is ravaged, the ground mourns; for the grain is ruined, the new wine is dried up, and the oil dwindles.
1:11  Despair, fieldworkers; wail, vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
1:12  The vine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the field are dry; surely joy has withered away from the sons of men.
1:13  Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God, because the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
1:14  Consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly, assemble the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.
1:15  Alas, for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and like devastation from the Almighty it comes.
1:16  Has not the food been cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
1:17  The seeds have shriveled under their shovels, the storehouses have been deserted; the granaries have been torn down, because the grain has dried up.
1:18  How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are confused, because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep suffer.
1:19  To You, O Lord, I call, because fire has devoured the wild pastures, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.
1:20  Even the beasts of the field long for You, because the streams of water have dried up, and fire has devoured the wild pastures.