Joel · Majority Standard Bible
Joel 1 Majority Standard Bible
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Joel is not in PT1904.
1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:
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2 Hear 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?
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3 Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
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4 What 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.
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5 Wake 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.
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6 For 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.
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7 It 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.
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8 Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
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9 Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
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10 The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
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11 Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
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12 The 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.
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13 Put 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.
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14 Consecrate 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.
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15 Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
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16 Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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17 The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.
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18 How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
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19 To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.
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20 Even 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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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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