Joel 1 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Joel is not in PT1904.
1 The Lord sent a message through Joel, son of Pethuel.
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2 Listen to this, elders; pay attention, everyone who lives in the land. Has anything ever happened like this before in your experience, or that of your forefathers?
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3 Tell your children about it, and have your children tell it to their children, and their children tell the next generation.
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4 What the cutting locusts left, the swarming locusts have eaten; what the swarming locusts left, the hopping locusts have eaten; what the hopping locusts left, the destroying locusts have eaten.
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5 Wake up, you drunks, and weep! Howl you wine drinkers, because the new wine has been suddenly taken away from your mouth!
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6 A nation has invaded my land: powerful and too many to count. Their teeth are like lion's teeth, their fangs like those of a lioness.
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7 It has ruined my grapevines and destroyed my fig trees, stripping them completely and reducing them to stumps, white and bare.
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8 Mourn like a bride dressed in sackcloth, mourning the death of her husband-to-be.
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9 Grain and wine offerings have stopped in the Temple. The priests who minister before the Lord are in mourning.
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10 The fields are devastated, the earth mourns; for the grain is ruined, the new wine dries up, the olive oil fails.
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11 Be ashamed, farmers, and wail in sorrow, keepers of vineyards, over the wheat and the barley, for the crops from the fields are ruined.
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12 The vines are shriveled, the fig trees are withered; the pomegranate, the palm, and the apricot trees—all the fruit trees have dried up, and at the same time the people's happiness has also dried up.
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13 Dress in sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; weep, you who minister before the altar! Go and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the grain and wine offerings have stopped in the Temple.
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14 Proclaim a fast; call a sacred assembly. Have the elders and all people of the land gather in the Temple, and cry out to your God, to the Lord.
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15 What a terrible day! For the day of the Lord is near, it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
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16 Haven't we seen our food taken away from us, right before our eyes? There is no joy and happiness in God's Temple.
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17 Seeds planted in the ground shrivel up; the storehouses are empty, the barns are torn down because the grain has dried up.
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18 The farm animals moan with hunger. The herds of cattle wander everywhere because they can't find grass to eat; the flocks of sheep are suffering.
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19 To you, Lord, I cry out! For fire has destroyed the pastures in the wilderness; flames have burned up all the orchards.
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20 Even the wild animals long for you because the streams have dried up, and fire has destroyed the pastures in 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
Pethuel
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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