1 The word of 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 priests, '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 : for the meat
offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your ELOHIM.
14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and
all the inhabitants of the land into the house of YAHUVEH your ELOHIM,
and cry unto YAHUVEH,
15 Alas for the day! for the day of YAHUVEHis 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 ELOHIM?
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.
~ Joel 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 YAHUVEH cometh, for it
is nigh at hand;
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.
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; yea,
and nothing shall escape them.
4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as
horsemen, so shall they run.
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.
6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather
blackness.
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:
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.
9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they
shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
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:
11 And YAHUVEH shall utter HIS voice before HIS army: for HIS camp is
very great: for he is strong that executeth HIS word: for the day of
YAHUVEHis great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
12 Therefore also now, saith YAHUVEH, turn ye even to ME with all your
heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto YAHUVEH your
ELOHIM: for HEis gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great
kindness, and repenteth HIM of the evil.
14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing
behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto YAHUVEH your
ELOHIM?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the
children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his
chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
17 Let the priests, the ministers of YAHUVEH, weep between the porch and the
altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not THINE heritage
to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say
among the people, Where is their ELOHIM?
18 Then will YAHUVEH be jealous for HIS land, and pity HIS people.
19 Yea, YAHUVEH will answer and say unto HIS people, Behold, I will send you
corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more
make you a reproach among the heathen:
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive
him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his
hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill
savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for YAHUVEH will do great things.
22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do
spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their
strength.
23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in YAHUVEH your ELOHIM: 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.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine
and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the
cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, MY great army which I sent
among you.
26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of YAHUVEH
your ELOHIM, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and MY people shall never be
ashamed.
27 And ye shall know that I AM in the midst of Israel, and that
I AMYAHUVEH your ELOHIM, and none else: and MY people shall never be
ashamed.
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:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour
out MYSPIRIT.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and
pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the
great and the terrible day of YAHUVEH come.
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the NAME of
YAHUVEH shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be
deliverance, as YAHUVEH hath said, and in the remnant whom YAHUVEH shall call.
~ Joel 3 ~
1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the
captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
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 forMY
heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted MY land.
3 And they have cast lots for MY people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and
sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
4 Yea, and what have ye to do with ME, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of
Palestine? will ye render ME a recompence? and if ye recompense ME, swiftly and
speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
5 Because ye have taken MY silver and MY gold, and have carried into your
temples MY goodly pleasant things:
6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the
Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will
return your recompence upon your own head:
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 YAHUVEH
hath spoken it.
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:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the
weak say, I am strong.
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together
round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for
there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the
press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of YAHUVEHis
near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their
shining.
16 YAHUVEH also shall roar out of Zion, and utter HIS voice from Jerusalem; and
the heavens and the earth shall shake: but YAHUVEHwill be the hope of
HIS people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 So shall ye know that I AMYAHUVEH your ELOHIM dwelling in Zion, my
holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass
through her any more.
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 of the house of YAHUVEH,
and shall water the valley of Shittim.
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.
20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for YAHUVEH
dwelleth in Zion.