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The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. |
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Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all inhabitants of the land: whether this happened in your days or in the days of your fathers? |
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Tell your children about it; and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation: |
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the remainder of the caterpillars eat the locusts, the remainder of the locusts ate worms, and the rest of the worms eaten bugs. |
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Awake, drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, grape juice, because it is cut off from your mouth! |
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For it came to my land, strong and without number; his teeth - teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw - a lioness. |
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It devastated my vine and fig tree in my broken off, stripped her naked, and threw; became white branches thereof.
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Lament like a virgin girded with [sackcloth], the husband of her youth! |
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The meat offering and drink offering in the house of the LORD; cry the priests, the ministers of the LORD. |
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The field is wasted, the land mourneth; For destroyed bread, dried grape juice, olive tree withered. |
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Be ashamed, farmers, howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field perished, |
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vine is dried up and the fig tree withered; Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field; because joy from the sons of men. |
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Gird [sackcloth], and lament, O priests! howl, ministers of the altar! sign, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God! for from the house of your God grain offering and drink offering.
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Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the Lord. |
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Oh, what a day! For the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. |
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Not before our eyes, yea the food, from the house of our God - joy and happiness? |
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Decayed grains under their clods, empty barns, storehouses destroyed, for it was without bread. |
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How do the beasts groan! herds of cattle, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep. |
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To thee, O Lord, will I cry; For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field. |
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The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. |
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