Thematic Bible




Joel 1:1 (show verse)

The word of Jehovah which was to Joel son of Pethuel.

Joel 1:2 (show verse)

Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the earth. Was this in your days, and if in the days of your fathers?
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Joel 1:3 (show verse)

Concerning it recount to your sons, and your sons to their sons, and their sons to another generation.

Joel 1:4 (show verse)

The residue of the creeping locust the common locust ate; and the residue of the common locust the feeder ate; and the residue of the feeder the devourer ate.

Joel 1:5 (show verse)

Awake, ye intoxicated, and weep; and wail, all ye drinking wine, on account of the new wine, for it was cut off from your mouth.

Joel 1:6 (show verse)

For a nation came up upon my land, strong, and no number; his teeth the teeth of a lion, and a biter's teeth of the lioness to him.

Joel 1:7 (show verse)

He set my vine for destruction, and my fig tree for breaking: he stripped off its covering and cast away; and its shoots were whitened.

Joel 1:8 (show verse)

Wail as the virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Joel 1:9 (show verse)

The gift was cut off and the libation from the house of Jehovah; mourn, ye priests serving Jehovah.

Joel 1:10 (show verse)

The field was laid waste, the land mourned; for the grain was laid waste, the new wine was dried up, the new oil languished.

Joel 1:11 (show verse)

The husbandmen were ashamed; wail, ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field perished.

Joel 1:12 (show verse)

The vine was dried up, and the fig tree languished; the pomegranate, also the palm tree and the apple tree; all the trees of the field were dried up, for joy was dried up from the sons of man.

Joel 1:13 (show verse)

Be ye girded and lament, ye priests: wail, ye, serving the altar: come in, pass the night in sackcloth, ye serving God: for the gift and the libation were withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:14 (show verse)

Consecrate a fast., call an assembly, gather together the old men, all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah.

Joel 1:15 (show verse)

Alas! for the day: for the day of Jehovah is near, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
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Joel 1:16 (show verse)

Was not the food cut off before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness?
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Joel 1:17 (show verse)

The kernels died beneath the clods, the treasures were laid waste, the garners were pulled down, for the grain was dried up.

Joel 1:18 (show verse)

How the beasts groaned! the herds of oxen wept, for no pasture to them; also the flocks of sheep were laid waste.

Joel 1:19 (show verse)

To thee, O Jehovah, will I call: for a fire consumed the habitations of the desert, and the flame burned all the trees of the field.

Joel 1:20 (show verse)

Also the beasts of the field will look up to thee: for the channels of waters were dried up, and the fire devoured the habitations of the desert.