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• 1:1The word of Jehovah which came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Compare
• 1:2Hear this, you elders, / And give heed, all you inhabitants of the land. / Has this ever happened in your days, / Or even in the days of your fathers? Compare
• 1:3Tell your children about it, / And let your children tell their children, / And let their children tell the next generation. Compare
• 1:4What the cutting locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; / And what the swarming locust has left, the licking locust has eaten; / And what the licking locust has left, the consuming locust has eaten. Compare
• 1:5Awake, drunkards, and weep; / Howl, all you who drink wine, / Because of the fresh wine; / For it has been cut off from your mouth. Compare
• 1:6For a nation has come up against My land, / Mighty and without number; / Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, / And it has the cutting teeth of a lioness. Compare
• 1:7It has made My vine a desolation, / And My fig tree a heap of splinters. / It has stripped it bare and cast it away; / Its branches are white. Compare
• 1:8Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth / Over the husband of her youth. Compare
• 1:9The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off / From the house of Jehovah; / The priests, the ministers of Jehovah, mourn. Compare
• 1:10The field is a waste; / The land mourns, / For the grain is a waste; / The new wine is dried up; / The fresh oil languishes. Compare
• 1:11Be ashamed, O farmers; / Howl, O vinedressers, / For the wheat and for the barley, / Because the harvest of the field has perished. Compare
• 1:12The vine is dried up, / And the fig tree languishes, / The pomegranate and the palm and the apple tree - / All the trees of the field are dried up; / Indeed gladness has withered away / From the children of men. Compare
• 1:13Gird yourselves and lament, O priests; / Howl, O ministers of the altar. / Come, pass the night in sackcloth, / O ministers of my God. / For the meal offering and the drink offering / Are held back from the house of your God. Compare
• 1:14Sanctify a fast; / Call a solemn assembly; / Gather the elders / And all the inhabitants of the land / To the house of Jehovah your God; / And cry unto Jehovah. Compare
• 1:15Alas for the day! / For the day of Jehovah has drawn near, / And as the destruction from the Almighty it will come. Compare
• 1:16Is not our food / Cut off before our eyes, / Joy and exultation / From the house of our God? Compare
• 1:17The seeds have shriveled / Under their clods; / The storehouses have been desolated; / The barns have been torn down; / For the grain is dried up. Compare
• 1:18How the beasts groan! / The herds of cattle are confused, / For they have no pasture; / The flocks of sheep also suffer punishment. Compare
• 1:19To You, O Jehovah, I cry out; / For fire has devoured / The pastures of the wilderness, / And the flame has set ablaze / All the trees of the field. Compare
• 1:20The beasts of the field also / Cry to You, / For the waterways / Are dried up, / And fire has devoured / The pastures of the wilderness. Compare

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