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Joel 1 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:1 - The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
(Exo 10:1–20 )
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:2 - Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:3 - Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:4 - That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:5 - Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:6 - For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:8 - Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:9 - The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:10 - The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:11 - Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:12 - The vine is withered, 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: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:13 - Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.

Starvation and Drought

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:14 - Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:15 - Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:16 - Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:17 - The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:18 - How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:19 - O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

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