Joel Chapter 1 (NIV)
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The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
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An Invasion of LocustsHear this, you elders;listen, all who live in the land.Has anything like this ever happened in your daysor in the days of your forefathers?
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Tell it to your children,and let your children tell it to their children,and their children to the next generation.
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What the locust swarm has leftthe great locusts have eaten;what the great locusts have leftthe young locusts have eaten;what the young locusts have leftother locusts have eaten.
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Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!Wail, all you drinkers of wine;wail because of the new wine,for it has been snatched from your lips.
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A nation has invaded my land,powerful and without number;it has the teeth of a lion,the fangs of a lioness.
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It has laid waste my vinesand ruined my fig trees.It has stripped off their barkand thrown it away,leaving their branches white.
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Mourn like a virgin in sackclothgrieving for the husband of her youth.
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Grain offerings and drink offeringsare cut off from the house of the Lord.The priests are in mourning,those who minister before the Lord.
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The fields are ruined,the ground is dried up;the grain is destroyed,the new wine is dried up,the oil fails.
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Despair, you farmers,wail, you vine growers;grieve for the wheat and the barley,because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
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The vine is dried upand the fig tree is withered;the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree—all the trees of the field—are dried up.Surely the joy of mankindis withered away.
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A Call to RepentancePut on sackcloth, O priests, and mourn;wail, you who minister before the altar.Come, spend the night in sackcloth,you who minister before my God;for the grain offerings and drink offeringsare withheld from the house of your God.
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Declare a holy fast;call a sacred assembly.Summon the eldersand all who live in the landto the house of the Lord your God,and cry out to the Lord.
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Alas for that day!For the day of the Lord is near;it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
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Has not the food been cut offbefore our very eyes—joy and gladnessfrom the house of our God?
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The seeds are shriveledbeneath the clods.The storehouses are in ruins,the granaries have been broken down,for the grain has dried up.
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How the cattle moan!The herds mill aboutbecause they have no pasture;even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
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To you, O Lord, I call,for fire has devoured the open pasturesand flames have burned up all the trees of the field.
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Even the wild animals pant for you;the streams of water have dried upand fire has devoured the open pastures.
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