Joel 1 — GNB

1Verse 1The word of Jehovah, which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.^{Verse 2}Hear this, ye old men; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land! Hath such a thing happened in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers?^{Verse 3}Tell ye your children of it, And let your children tell their children, And their children another generation!^{Verse 4}That which the gnawing-locust left hath the swarming-locust eaten, And that which the swarming-locust left hath the licking-locust eaten, And that which the licking-locust left hath the consuming-locust eaten.^{Verse 5}Awake, ye drunkards, and weep! Howl, all ye drinkers of wine, For the new wine, which is snatched from your mouths!^{Verse 6}For a nation hath come up on my land, Strong, and not to be numbered; Their teeth are the teeth of the lion; They have the jaw-teeth of the lioness.^{Verse 7}They have made my vine a desolation, And my fig-tree a broken branch; They have made it quite bare and cast it away; The branches thereof are made white.^{Verse 8}Lament ye, like a bride, Clothed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!^{Verse 9}The flour-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; The priests, the servants of Jehovah mourn.^{Verse 10}The field is laid waste; The ground mourneth, For the corn is laid waste; The new wine is dried up; The oil languisheth.^{Verse 11}Lament, O ye husbandmen, Howl, O ye vine-dressers, For the wheat and the barley, For the harvest of the field hath perished!^{Verse 12}The vine is dried up, And the fig-tree languisheth; The pomegranate, the palm-tree, and the apple-tree,—All the trees of the field, are withered; Yea, joy is withered away from the sons of men.^{Verse 13}Gird yourselves with sackcloth and mourn, ye priests! Howl, ye ministers of the altar! Come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God, For the flour-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God!^{Verse 14}Appoint ye a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land Into the house of Jehovah, your God, And cry unto Jehovah!^{Verse 15}Alas, alas the day! For the day of Jehovah is near; Even as destruction from the Almighty doth it come.^{Verse 16}Is not our food cut off from before our eyes, Yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?^{Verse 17}The seeds are rotten under their clods, The storehouses are laid desolate, the garners are destroyed; For the corn is withered.^{Verse 18}How do the beasts groan, How do the herds of oxen wander perplexed, Having no pasture! The flocks of sheep also are destroyed.^{Verse 19}To thee, O Jehovah, do I call, For a fire hath devoured the pastures of the desert, And a flame hath burned all the trees of the field!^{Verse 20}The beasts of the field, also, cry unto thee, For the streams of water are dried up, And a fire hath devoured the pastures of the desert!