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{Joel 1:1} The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:2} Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:3} Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:4} That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:5} Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:6} For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:7} He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast [it] away; the branches thereof are made white. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:8} Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:9} The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’S ministers, mourn. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:10} The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:11} Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:12} The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, [even] all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:13} Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:14} Sanctify ye 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, ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:15} Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:16} Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea,] joy and gladness from the house of our God? ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:17} The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:18} How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:19} O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

{Joel 1:20} The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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