A Plague of Locusts
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Tell your children about it,(D)
and let your children tell their children,
and their children the next generation.
4 and let your children tell their children,
and their children the next generation.
What the devouring locust(E) has left,
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust has left,
the young locust(F) has eaten;
and what the young locust has left,
the destroying locust(G) has eaten.
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust has left,
the young locust(F) has eaten;
and what the young locust has left,
the destroying locust(G) has eaten.
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Wake up, you drunkards,(H) and weep;
wail, all you wine drinkers,
because of the sweet wine,
for it has been taken from your mouth.
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7 wail, all you wine drinkers,
because of the sweet wine,
for it has been taken from your mouth.
It has devastated My grapevine
and splintered My fig tree.
It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away;
its branches have turned white.
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12 and splintered My fig tree.
It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away;
its branches have turned white.
The grapevine is dried up,(S)
and the fig tree is withered;
the pomegranate,(T) the date palm,(U) and the apple(V)—
all the trees of the orchard—have withered.
Indeed, human joy has dried up.(W)
and the fig tree is withered;
the pomegranate,(T) the date palm,(U) and the apple(V)—
all the trees of the orchard—have withered.
Indeed, human joy has dried up.(W)
The Day of the Lord
Footnotes:
a.
Joel 1:11: Or The farmers are dismayed, the vinedressers wail
b.
Joel 1:17: Or clods; Hb obscure
c.
Joel 1:20: Or animals pant for; Hb obscure
Cross references:
N.
Joel 1:10:
Isaiah 24:4
T.
Joel 1:12:
Haggai 2:19
AA.
Joel 1:13:
1 Kings 21:27
AB.
Joel 1:14:
Joel 2:15-16
AH.
Joel 1:16:
Isaiah 3:7
AJ.
Joel 1:17:
Isaiah 17:10-11
AL.
Joel 1:19:
Psalm 50:15