| 1:1 |
TheYahwehs word of Jehovah that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. |
| 1:2 |
Hear this, yeyou old menelders, and give earlisten, all yeyou inhabitants of the land.! HathHas this beenever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? |
| 1:3 |
Tell ye your children ofabout it, and lethave your children tell their children, and their children, another generation. |
| 1:4 |
ThatWhat which the palmerswarming wormlocust hathhas left, hath the great locust has eaten;. andWhat thatthe whichgreat the locust hathhas left, hath the cankergrasshopper wormhas eaten;. andWhat that which the cankergrasshopper wormhas hath left, hath the caterpillar has eaten. |
| 1:5 |
AwakeWake up, yeyou drunkards, and weep;! and wailWail, all yeyou drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine;, for it is cut off from your mouth. |
| 1:6 |
For a nation ishas come up uponon my land, strong, and without number;. hisHis teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hathhas the jawfangs teeth of a lioness. |
| 1:7 |
He hathhas laid my vine waste, and barkedstripped my fig tree:. heHe hathhas madestripped itits clean barebark, and castthrown it away;. theIts branches thereof are made white. |
| 1:8 |
LamentMourn like a virgin girdeddressed within sackcloth for the husband of her youth.! |
| 1:9 |
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from theYahwehs house. ofThe Jehovah; the priests, JehovahsYahwehs ministers, mourn. |
| 1:10 |
The field is laid waste,. theThe land mourneth;mourns, for the grain is destroyed, theThe new wine ishas dried up, and the oil languishethlanguishes. |
| 1:11 |
Be confounded, Oyou yefarmers! husbandmenWail, wail,you Ovineyard ye vinedresserskeepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field ishas perished. |
| 1:12 |
The vine ishas withereddried up, and the fig tree languisheth;withered— the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered:; for joy ishas withered away from the sons of men. |
| 1:13 |
GirdPut yourselveson with sackcloth, and lamentmourn, yeyou priests;! wailWail, yeyou ministers of the altar;. comeCome, lie all night in sackcloth, yeyou ministers of my God:, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withholdenwithheld from theyour Gods house of your God. |
| 1:14 |
Sanctify a fast,. callCall a solemn assembly,. gatherGather the oldelders men and all the inhabitants of the land untoto the house of JehovahYahweh, your God, and cry untoto JehovahYahweh. |
| 1:15 |
Alas for the day! forFor the day of JehovahYahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. |
| 1:16 |
IsIsnt not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? |
| 1:17 |
The seeds rot under their clods;. theThe garnersgranaries are laid desolate,. theThe barns are broken down;, for the grain ishas withered. |
| 1:18 |
How do the beastsanimals groan! theThe herds of cattlelivestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture;. yeaYes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. |
| 1:19 |
O JehovahYahweh, toI theecry doto Iyou, cry; for the fire hathhas devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hathhas burned all the trees of the field. |
| 1:20 |
YeaYes, the beastsanimals of the field pant untoto thee;you, for the water brooks arehave dried up, and the fire hathhas devoured the pastures of the wilderness. |
| 2:1 |
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain;! letLet all the inhabitants of the land tremble:, for the day of JehovahYahweh comethcomes, for it is nighclose at hand;: |
| 2:2 |
aA day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,. asAs the dawn spreadspreading uponon the mountains;, a great people and astrong strongpeople; there hathhas notnever been ever the like, neither shallwill there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations. |
| 2:3 |
A fire devourethdevours before them;, and behind them, a flame burneth:burns. theThe land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness;. yeaYes, and noneno hathone has escaped them. |
| 2:4 |
TheTheir appearance of them is as the appearance of horses;, and they run as horsemen, so do they run. |
| 2:5 |
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devourethdevours the stubble, aslike a strong people set in battle array. |
| 2:6 |
At their presence the peoples are in anguish;. allAll faces arehave waxedgrown pale. |
| 2:7 |
They run like mighty men;. theyThey climb the wall like menwarriors. ofThey war;each and they march everyin one on his waysline, and they breakdont notswerve theiroff rankscourse. |
| 2:8 |
NeitherOne dothdoesnt onejostle thrust another;. theyThey each march everyin onetheir inown his path;. andThey they burst through the weapons,defenses and dont break not off their courseranks. |
| 2:9 |
They leaprush uponon the city;. theyThey run uponon the wall;. theyThey climb up into the houses;. theyThey enter in at the windows like a thiefthieves. |
| 2:10 |
The earth quakethquakes before them;. theThe heavens tremble;. theThe sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. |
| 2:11 |
AndYahweh Jehovahthunders uttereth his voice before his army;, for his campforces isare very great; for he is strong thatwho executethobeys his wordcommand; for the day of JehovahYahweh is great and very terrible;awesome, and who can abideendure it? |
| 2:12 |
Yet even now, saithsays JehovahYahweh, turn yeto unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:. |
| 2:13 |
andTear rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn untoto JehovahYahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindnessloving kindness, and repentethrelents himfrom ofsending the evilcalamity. |
| 2:14 |
Who knowethknows? whetherHe hemay will not turn and repentrelent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering untoto JehovahYahweh, your God?. |
| 2:15 |
Blow the trumpet in Zion,! sanctifySanctify a fast,. callCall a solemn assembly;. |
| 2:16 |
gatherGather the people,. sanctifySanctify the assembly,. assembleAssemble the oldelders. men,Gather gather the children, and those thatwho sucknurse thefrom breasts;. letLet the bridegroom go forthout fromof his chamberroom, and the bride out of her closetchamber. |
| 2:17 |
Let the priests, the ministers of JehovahYahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thyyour people, O JehovahYahweh, and dont give notyour thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them:. whereforeWhy should they say among the peoples, Where is their God? |
| 2:18 |
Then Yahweh was Jehovah jealous for his land, and had pity on his people. |
| 2:19 |
AndYahweh Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and new wine, and oil, and yeyou shallwill be satisfied therewithwith them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations;. |
| 2:20 |
butBut I will remove the northern army far offaway from you the northern army, and will drive it into a land barren and desolate land, its forepartfront into the eastern sea, and its hinderback part into the western sea; and its stench shallwill come up, and its illbad savorsmell shallwill comerise. up,Surely becausehe ithas hath done great things. |
| 2:21 |
Fear notLand, Odont land, be afraid. Be glad and rejoice;, for JehovahYahweh hathhas done great things. |
| 2:22 |
BeDont notbe afraid, yeyou beastsanimals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness dospring springup, for the tree bearethbears its fruit,. theThe fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. |
| 2:23 |
Be glad then, yeyou children of Zion, and rejoice in JehovahYahweh, your God; for he givethgives you the formerearly rain in just measure, and he causethcauses the rain to come down for you the rain, the formerearly rain and the latter rain, inas the first monthbefore. |
| 2:24 |
AndThe thethreshing floors shallwill be full of wheat, and the vats shallwill overflow with new wine and oil. |
| 2:25 |
And I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust hathhas eaten, the cankergreat wormlocust, and the caterpillargrasshopper, and the palmer wormcaterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you. |
| 2:26 |
AndYou yewill shallhave eatplenty into plentyeat and be satisfied, and shallwill praise the name of JehovahYahweh, your God, thatwho hathhas dealt wondrously with you; and my people shallwill never again be put to shamedisappointed. |
| 2:27 |
AndYou yewill shall know that I am inamong the midst of Israel, and that I am JehovahYahweh, your God, and there is noneno one else; and my people shallwill never again be put to shamedisappointed. |
| 2:28 |
AndIt itwill shallhappen come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit uponon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shallwill prophesy,. yourYour old men shallwill dream dreams,. yourYour young men shallwill see visions:. |
| 2:29 |
andAnd also uponon the servants and uponon the handmaids in those days, I will I pour out my Spirit. |
| 2:30 |
And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. |
| 2:31 |
The sun shallwill be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of JehovahYahweh comethcomes. |
| 2:32 |
AndIt itwill shallhappen come to pass, that whosoeverwhoever shallwill call on theYahwehs name of Jehovah shall be deliveredsaved; for in mountMount Zion and in Jerusalem there shallwill be those thatwho escape, as JehovahYahweh hathhas said, and among the remnant, those whom JehovahYahweh doth callcalls. |
| 3:1 |
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shallrestore bring back the captivityfortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, |
| 3:2 |
I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment uponon them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations:. andThey they have parteddivided my land, |
| 3:3 |
and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlotprostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink. |
| 3:4 |
YeaYes, and what are yeyou to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? willWill yeyou renderrepay me a recompense? andAnd if yeyou recompenserepay me, I will swiftly and speedily will I return your recompenserepayment uponon your own head. |
| 3:5 |
ForasmuchBecause asyou ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples my goodly precious things, |
| 3:6 |
and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem untoto the sons of the GreciansGreeks, that yeyou may remove them far from their border;. |
| 3:7 |
beholdBehold, I will stir them up out of the place whitherwhere yeyou have sold them, and will return your recompenserepayment uponon your own head; |
| 3:8 |
and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the handhands of the children of Judah, and they shallwill sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, far off: for JehovahYahweh hathhas spoken it. |
| 3:9 |
Proclaim ye this among the nations;: preparePrepare for war;! stirStir up the mighty men;. letLet all the menwarriors of war draw near,. letLet them come up. |
| 3:10 |
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears:. letLet the weak say, I am strong. |
| 3:11 |
HasteHurry ye, and come, all yeyou surrounding nations round about, and gather yourselves together:. thitherCause causeyour thy mighty ones to come down there, O JehovahYahweh. |
| 3:12 |
Let the nations bestirarouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations round about. |
| 3:13 |
Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe:. comeCome, tread, ye; for the winepresswine press is full, the vats overflow;, for their wickedness is great. |
| 3:14 |
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! forFor the day of JehovahYahweh is near in the valley of decision. |
| 3:16 |
AndYahweh Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utterthunder his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shallwill shake:; but JehovahYahweh will be a refuge untoto his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel. |
| 3:17 |
So shallyou yewill know that I am JehovahYahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain:. thenThen shall Jerusalem will be holy, and there shall no strangers will pass through her any more. |
| 3:18 |
AndIt itwill shallhappen come to pass in that day, that the mountains shallwill drop down sweet wine, and the hills shallwill flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shallwill flow with waters; and a fountain shallwill comeflow forthout from theYahwehs house of Jehovah, and shallwill water the valley of Shittim. |
| 3:19 |
Egypt shallwill be a desolation, and Edom shallwill be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. |
| 3:20 |
But Judah shallwill abidebe forinhabited everforever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. |
| 3:21 |
And I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed:, for JehovahYahweh dwellethdwells in Zion. |