Joel 1 Free Bible Version
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1 The Lord sent a message through Joel, son of Pethuel.
1 PALABRA de Jehová que fué á Joel hijo de Pethuel.
1 Yahweh’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
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?
2 Oid esto, viejos, y escuchad, todos los moradores de la tierra. ¿Ha acontecido esto en vuestros días, ó en los días de vuestros padres?
2 Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell your children about it, and have your children tell it to their children, and their children tell the next generation.
3 De esto contaréis á vuestros hijos, y vuestros hijos á sus hijos, y sus hijos á la otra generación.
3 Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.
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.
4 Lo que quedó de la oruga comió la langosta, y lo que quedó de la langosta comió el pulgón; y el revoltón comió lo que del pulgón había quedado.
4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
5 Wake up, you drunks, and weep! Howl you wine drinkers, because the new wine has been suddenly taken away from your mouth!
5 Despertad, borrachos, y llorad; aullad todos los que bebéis vino, á causa del mosto, porque os es quitado de vuestra boca.
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
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.
6 Porque gente subió á mi tierra, fuerte y sin número; sus dientes, dientes de león, y sus muelas, de león.
6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has ruined my grapevines and destroyed my fig trees, stripping them completely and reducing them to stumps, white and bare.
7 Asoló mi vid, y descortezó mi higuera: del todo la desnudó y derribó: sus ramas quedaron blancas.
7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
8 Mourn like a bride dressed in sackcloth, mourning the death of her husband-to-be.
8 Llora tú como moza vestida de saco por el marido de su juventud.
8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
9 Grain and wine offerings have stopped in the Temple. The priests who minister before the Lord are in mourning.
9 Pereció el presente y la libación de la casa de Jehová: los sacerdotes ministros de Jehová hicieron luto.
9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
10 The fields are devastated, the earth mourns; for the grain is ruined, the new wine dries up, the olive oil fails.
10 El campo fué destruído, enlutóse la tierra; porque el trigo fué destruído, se secó el mosto, perdióse el aceite.
10 The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
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.
11 Confundíos, labradores, aullad, viñeros, por el trigo y la cebada; porque se perdió la mies del campo.
11 Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.
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.
12 Secóse la vid, y pereció la higuera, el granado también, la palma, y el manzano; secáronse todos los árboles del campo; por lo cual se secó el gozo de los hijos de los hombres.
12 The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered— the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
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.
13 Ceñíos y lamentad, sacerdotes; aullad, ministros del altar; venid, dormid en sacos, ministros de mi Dios: porque quitado es de la casa de vuestro Dios el presente y la libación.
13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.
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.
14 Pregonad ayuno, llamad á congregación; congregad los ancianos y todos los moradores de la tierra en la casa de Jehová vuestro Dios, y clamad á Jehová.
14 Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.
15 What a terrible day! For the day of the Lord is near, it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
15 ¡Ay del día! porque cercano está el día de Jehová, y vendrá como destrucción por el Todopoderoso.
15 Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
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.
16 ¿No es quitado el mantenimiento de delante de nuestros ojos, la alegría y el placer de la casa de nuestro Dios?
16 Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 Seeds planted in the ground shrivel up; the storehouses are empty, the barns are torn down because the grain has dried up.
17 El grano se pudrió debajo de sus terrones, los bastimentos fueron asolados, los alfolíes destruídos; porque se secó el trigo.
17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
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.
18 ¡Cuánto gimieron las bestias! ¡cuán turbados anduvieron los hatos de los bueyes, porque no tuvieron pastos! también fueron asolados los rebaños de las ovejas.
18 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
19 To you, Lord, I cry out! For fire has destroyed the pastures in the wilderness; flames have burned up all the orchards.
19 A ti, oh Jehová, clamaré: porque fuego consumió los pastos del desierto, y llama abrasó todos los árboles del campo.
19 Yahweh, I cry to you, for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
20 Even the wild animals long for you because the streams have dried up, and fire has destroyed the pastures in the wilderness.
20 Las bestias del campo bramarán también á ti; porque se secaron los arroyos de las aguas, y fuego consumió las praderías del desierto.
20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures 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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