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title: Joel 1
slug: kjv/joel-1
createdAt: 2024-08-25T02:57:26.887Z
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**1 **The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

**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?

**3 **Tell ye your children of it, and *let* your children *tell* their children, and their children another generation.

**4 **That which the palmerworm 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 caterpiller eaten.

**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.

**6 **For a nation is 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.

**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.

**8 **Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

**9 **The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

**10 **The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

**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.

**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.

**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 withholden from the house of your God.

**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,

**15 **Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD *is* at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

**16 **Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, *yea*, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

**17 **The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

**18 **How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

**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.

**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.