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The word of Jehovah that was to Joel the son of Pethuel.
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Hear this, ye elders, and give ear, all ye who dwell in the land. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
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Concerning it, recount it to your sons, and your sons to their sons, and their sons to another generation.
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What remains from the palmerworm the locust will eat; and what remains from the locust the grub will eat; and what remains from the grub the caterpillar will eat.
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Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, on account of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
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For a nation has come up on My land, numerous, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the molars of an old lion.
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He has set My vine for desolation, and My fig tree for foam; making it bare, he has made it bare, and cast it away; the tendrils of it are made white.
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Wail as a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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The gift offering and the poured offering is cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovahs ministers, mourn.
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The field is devastated, the ground mourns; for the grain is devastated; the must is dried up, the olive oil languishes.
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Be shamed, O ye farmers; howl, O ye vinedressers, over the wheat and over the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.
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The vine is dried up, and the fig languishes; the pomegranate, even the palm tree, and the apple tree, all the trees of the field are dried up; for joy is dried up from the sons of man.
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Gird yourselves, and wail, ye priests; howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, pass the night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God, for the gift offering and the poured offering is withheld from the house of your God.
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Sanctify ye a fast, call a day of restraint, gather the elders and all those who dwell in the land into the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah,
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Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is near, and as a devastation from Shaddai shall it come.
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Is not the food cut off in front of our eyes, gladness and rejoicing from the house of our God?
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The kernel is spoiled under their clods, the treasures are desolated, the barns are broken down, for the grain is dried up.
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How does the beast sigh! The droves of cattle are perplexed, for there is no pasture for them; even the droves of the flock are desolated.
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to Thee, O Jehovah, will I call; for the fire has devoured the sheep folds of the wilderness, and the flame has set flame to all the trees of the field.
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Even the beasts of the field bleat to Thee, for the channels of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the sheep folds of the wilderness.
