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    Joel · 20 verses

    Joel 1

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    The harvest is eaten in a four-stage relay, each locust consuming whatever the last one spared; by the end, even the trees have gone pale and the sweet wine has vanished from the drinkers’ mouths.

    A disaster handed downvv. 1–7

    The word comes to Joel son of Pethuel, and Joel addresses elders and all who dwell in the land. The calamity is to be passed from children to children, which is a rather grim family heirloom: one locust leaves a remnant, another eats it, then another, and then another. The creature is called a nation—powerful and without number—with the teeth of a lion and the fangs of a lioness; it strips the grapevine and fig tree until their branches turn white.

    Sackcloth at the house of the LORDvv. 8–15

    The summons widens from drinkers and farmers to the priests, ministers of the altar, elders, and all the residents of the land. Wine, grain, oil, fruit, and the joy of mankind have dried up; even the offerings have been cut off. The priests are told to spend the night in sackcloth, and the elders and residents are gathered to cry out to the LORD. The day itself is then named as near, arriving as destruction from the Almighty.

    Nothing left for field or flockvv. 16–20

    The ruin now speaks through what can no longer be seen: food is cut off before their eyes, the seeds lie shriveled, the storehouses and granaries are broken, and the cattle groan without pasture. Joel calls to the LORD as fire consumes the open pastures and scorches the trees. Even the beasts of the field pant for the LORD, while the streams of water have dried up—a chapter ending with thirst, smoke, and a very empty granary.

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    1. Joel 1:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:

    2. Joel 1:2Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?

    3. Joel 1:3Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

    4. Joel 1:4What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

    5. Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

    6. Joel 1:6For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.

    7. Joel 1:7It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

    8. Joel 1:8Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

    9. Joel 1:9Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

    10. Joel 1:10The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.

    11. Joel 1:11Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

    12. Joel 1:12The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.

    13. Joel 1:13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

    14. Joel 1:14Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

    15. Joel 1:15Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

    16. Joel 1:16Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?

    17. Joel 1:17The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

    18. Joel 1:18How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

    19. Joel 1:19To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

    20. Joel 1:20Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 4Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
    • 3Deuteronomy 6:7And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
    • 4Amos 4:9“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
    • 14Joel 2:15–16Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.
    • 3Psalms 145:4One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
    • 3Psalms 71:18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
    • 15Isaiah 13:6–9Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
    • 1Acts 2:16No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
    • 2Joel 2:2a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
    • 3Exodus 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
    • 3Psalms 78:3–8that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
    • 4Psalms 78:46He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
    • 4Isaiah 33:4Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.
    • 4Exodus 10:4But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
    • 4Amos 7:1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
    • 13Jeremiah 4:8So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

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