Joel · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Joel 1 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
Joel is not in PT1904.
1 The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
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2 Hear these [words], ye elders, and hearken all ye that inhabit the land. Have such things happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
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3 Tell your children concerning them, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
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4 The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.
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5 Awake, ye drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness are removed from your mouth.
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6 For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion’s teeth, and their back teeth those of a [lion’s] whelp.
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7 He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig trees: he has utterly searched [my vine], and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.
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8 Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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9 The meat offering and drink offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.
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10 For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;
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11 the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.
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12 The vine is dried up, and the fig trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm tree, and apple, and all the trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have abolished joy.
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13 Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests: mourn, ye that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloth, ye that minister to God: for the meat offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
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14 Sanctify a fast, proclaim a [solemn] service, gather the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,
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15 Alas, alas, alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is nigh, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.
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16 [Your] meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.
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17 The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the winepresses are broken down; for the corn is withered.
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18 What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.
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19 To thee, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burned up all the trees of the field.
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20 And the cattle of the field have looked up to thee: for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.
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Joel
The prophet to whom the word of the LORD came, son of Pethuel.
Cited in the guide: Joel 1:1
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Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Acts 2:16; Jeremiah 1:2; Hosea 1:1; Ezekiel 1:3; 2 Peter 1:21
- 2 Joel 2:2; Hosea 5:1; Jeremiah 30:7; Job 8:8; Micah 3:1
- 3 Deuteronomy 6:7; Psalm 71:18; Psalm 145:4; Psalm 78:3–8; Exodus 13:14
- 4 Joel 2:25; Amos 4:9; Amos 7:1; Psalm 78:46; Exodus 10:4
- 5 Luke 21:34–36; James 5:1; Isaiah 32:10–12; Isaiah 24:7–11; Jeremiah 4:8
- 6 Joel 2:25; Joel 2:2–11; Isaiah 8:8; Revelation 9:7–10; Proverbs 30:14
- 7 Amos 4:9; Isaiah 5:6; Joel 1:12; Jeremiah 8:13; Hosea 2:12
- 8 Isaiah 22:12; Malachi 2:15; James 5:1; Amos 8:10; Isaiah 24:7–12
- 9 Joel 2:14; Joel 2:17; Hosea 9:4; Joel 1:13; Isaiah 61:6
- 10 Hosea 4:3; Jeremiah 12:11; Hosea 9:2; Joel 1:5; Haggai 1:11
- 11 Jeremiah 14:3–4; Isaiah 17:11; Jeremiah 9:12; Romans 5:5; Amos 5:16
- 12 Isaiah 24:11; Isaiah 16:10; Joel 1:16; Habakkuk 3:17–18; Song of Songs 2:3
- 13 Jeremiah 4:8; Joel 1:8–9; Jeremiah 9:10; Joel 2:17; 1 Kings 21:27
- 14 Joel 2:15–16; 2 Chronicles 20:3–4; Jonah 3:8; 2 Chronicles 20:13; Deuteronomy 29:10–11
- 15 Isaiah 13:6–9; Zephaniah 1:14–18; Jeremiah 30:7; Ezekiel 7:2–12; Joel 2:11
- 16 Psalm 43:4; Psalm 105:3; Deuteronomy 12:6–7; Isaiah 3:7; Joel 1:13
- 17 Isaiah 17:10–11; Genesis 23:16
- 18 Hosea 4:3; Jeremiah 12:4; Jeremiah 14:5–6; Romans 8:22; Joel 1:20
- 19 Jeremiah 9:10; Psalm 50:15; Amos 7:4; Micah 7:7; Psalm 91:15
- 20 Psalm 104:21; 1 Kings 17:7; Job 38:41; Psalm 147:9; Psalm 145:15
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