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The next file is: JOEL
1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
1:2 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?
1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell]
their children, and their children another generation.
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.
1:5 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.
1:6 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.
1:7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath
made it clean bare, and cast [it] away; its branches are made
white.
1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband
of her youth.
1:9 The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the
house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is
wasted; the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
1:11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vine-dressers,
for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the
field hath perished.
1:12 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.
1:13 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
withheld from the house of your God.
1:14 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 to the LORD,
1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and
as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
1:16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [and] joy and
gladness from the house of our God?
1:17 The seed hath perished under their clods, the granaries are
laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is
withered.
1:18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed,
because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made
desolate.
1:19 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.
1:20 The beasts of the field cry also to thee: for the rivers of
waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of
the wilderness.
2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy
mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the
day of the LORD cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand;
2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of
thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a
great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like,
neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many
generations.
2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame
burneth: the land [is] as the garden of Eden before them, and
behind them a desolate wilderness; and nothing shall escape
them.
2:4 The appearance of them [is] as the appearance of horses; and
as horsemen, so shall they run.
2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall
they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the
stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
2:6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces
shall gather blackness.
2:7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall
like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways,
and they shall not break their ranks:
2:8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one
in his path: and [when] they fall upon the sword, they shall
not be wounded.
2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon
the wall, they shall climb upon the houses; they shall enter in
at the windows like a thief.
2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall
tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars
shall withdraw their shining:
2:11 And the LORD will utter his voice before his army: for his
camp [is] very great: for [he is] strong that executeth his
word: for the day of the LORD [is] great and very terrible; and
who can abide it?
2:12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, Turn ye even to me with
all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with
mourning:
2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the
LORD your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow to
anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth of the evil.
2:14 Who knoweth [if] he will return and repent, and leave a
blessing behind him; [even] a meat-offering and a
drink-offering to the LORD your God?
2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn
assembly:
2:16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the
elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts:
let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out
of her closet.
2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between
the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O
LORD, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the heathen
should rule over them: why should they say among the people,
Where [is] their God?
2:18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his
people.
2:19 And the LORD will answer and say to his people, Behold, I
will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be
satisfied with it; and I will no more make you a reproach among
the heathen:
2:20 But I will remove far from you the northern [army], and
will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face
towards the east sea, and his hinder part towards the utmost
sea, and his odious scent shall come up, and his ill savor
shall come up, because he hath done great things.
2:21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do
great things.
2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of
the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth its fruit, the
fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength.
2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD
your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and
he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain,
and the latter rain in the first [month].
2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall
overflow with wine and oil.
2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath
eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the
palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.
2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise
the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with
you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
2:27 And ye shall know that I [am] in the midst of Israel, and
[that] I [am] the LORD your God, and none else: and my people
shall never be ashamed.
2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour out
my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men
shall see visions:
2:29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those
days will I pour out my spirit.
2:30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth,
blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into
blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD shall
come.
2:32 And it shall come to pass, [that] whoever shall call on the
name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in
Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in
the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
3:1 For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall
bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down
into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there
for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and divided my land.
3:3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy
for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
3:4 Yes, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and
all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompense?
and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily I will return
your recompense upon your own head;
3:5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have
carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.
3:6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem
have ye sold to the Grecians, that ye might remove them far
from their border.
3:7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have
sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head:
3:8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand
of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the
Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
3:9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up
the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come
up:
3:10 Beat your plow-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks
into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong.
3:11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather
yourselves together around: thither cause thy mighty ones to
come down, O LORD.
3:12 Let the heathen be awakened, and come up to the valley of
Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen on
every side.
3:13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, go
down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their
wickedness [is] great.
3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the
day of the LORD [is] near in the valley of decision.
3:15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall
withdraw their shining.
3:16 The LORD also will roar out of Zion, and utter his voice
from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but
the LORD [will be] the hope of his people, and the strength of
the children of Israel.
3:17 So shall ye know that I [am] the LORD your God dwelling in
Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there
shall no strangers pass through her any more.
3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the mountains
shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a
fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD, and shall
water the valley of Shittim.
3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate
wilderness, for the violence [against] the children of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
3:20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from
generation to generation.
3:21 For I will cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed:
for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.