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The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
An Invasion of Locusts
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Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors? SCode Hos 5:1
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Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. SCode Psa 78:4
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What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten. SCode Exo 10:4 Psa 105:34 Psa 78:46 Jol 2:25 Amo 7:1 Amo 4:9 Nah 3:15
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Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips. SCode Isa 24:11 Isa 49:26 Jol 3:18 Amo 9:13
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A nation has invaded my land, a mighty army without number; it has the teeth of a lion, the fangs of a lioness. SCode Jol 2:2 Rev 9:7~8
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It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white. SCode
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Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth. SCode 2Sam 3:31
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Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD. SCode Isa 61:6 Ezk 45:4 Jol 1:13~14 Jol 2:14
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The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the olive oil fails. SCode Hos 4:3 Hos 2:9
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Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed. SCode Jer 14:4 Jol 1:17
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The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree - all the trees of the field - are dried up. Surely the people’s joy is withered away. SCode Isa 24:11 Jer 48:33 Jol 1:7~9
A Call to Lamentation
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Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God. SCode Jer 4:8 Jol 2:14 Mic 1:8
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Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. SCode 2Chr 20:3 Jol 1:2 Jol 2:15~17
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Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty. SCode Isa 13:6 Isa 13:9 Jer 46:10 Ezk 30:2~3 Jol 2:1~2 Jol 2:11 Jol 3:14 Jol 2:31 Amo 5:18 Oba 1:15 Zeph 1:14~15 Zech 14:1 2Pet 3:10
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Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes - joy and gladness from the house of our God? SCode Deu 12:6~7 Deu 16:14~15
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The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up. SCode Jol 1:11~13 Mal 2:3
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How the cattle moan! The herds mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering. SCode Jer 12:4 Hos 4:3 Jol 2:22
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To you, Lord, I call, for fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness and flames have burned up all the trees of the field. SCode Psa 50:15 Jer 9:10
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Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness. SCode Job 38:41 Psa 145:15 Psa 104:21 Jol 1:19
NIV Footnotes
  1. 1:4 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.
  2. 1:12 Or possibly apricot
  3. 1:15 Hebrew Shaddai
  4. 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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