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1:1  The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:
1:2  Hear this, you elders; listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?
1:3  Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children the next generation.
1:4  What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
1:5  Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the sweet wine, for it has been taken from your mouth.
1:6  For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
1:7  It has devastated My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away; its branches have turned white.
1:8  Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the husband of her youth.
1:9  Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, who are ministers of the LORD, mourn.
1:10  The fields are destroyed; the land grieves; indeed, the grain is destroyed; the new wine is dried up; and the olive oil fails.
1:11  Be ashamed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
1:12  The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the date palm, and the apple-- all the trees of the orchard--have withered. Indeed, human joy has dried up.
1:13  Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
1:14  Announce a sacred fast; proclaim an assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land at the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
1:15  Woe because of that day! For the Day of the LORD is near and will come as devastation from the Almighty.
1:16  Hasn't the food been cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
1:17  The seeds lie shriveled in their casings. The storehouses are in ruin, and the granaries are broken down, because the grain has withered away.
1:18  How the animals groan! The herds of cattle wander in confusion since they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.
1:19  I call to You, LORD, for fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness, and flames have devoured all the trees of the countryside.
1:20  Even the wild animals cry out to You, for the river beds are dried up, and fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness.