11 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel .
12 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 .
13 Tell ye your children of it and let your children tell
their children and their children another generation .
14 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 caterpillar
eaten .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband
of her youth .
19 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from
the house of the LORD the priests the LORD'S ministers mourn .
110 The field is wasted the land mourneth for the corn is
wasted the new wine is dried up the oil languisheth .
111 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 .
112 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 .
113 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 .
114 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 .
115 Alas for the day for the day of the LORD is at hand and as
a destruction from the Almighty shall it come .
116 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes yea joy and
gladness from the house of our God .
117 The seed is rotten under their clods the garners are laid
desolate the barns are broken down for the corn is withered .
118 How do the beasts groan the herds of cattle are perplexed
because they have no pasture yea the flocks of sheep are made
desolate .
119 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 .
120 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 .
* 21 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm in my holy
mountain let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day
of the LORD cometh for it is nigh at hand .
22 A day of darkness and of gloominess a day of clouds and of
thick darkness as the morning spread upon the mountains a great
people and a strong there hath not been ever the like neither
shall be any more after it even to the years of many generations
.
23 A fire devoureth before them and behind them a flame
burneth the land is as the garden of Eden before them and behind
them a desolate wilderness yea and nothing shall escape them .
24 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses and
as horsemen so shall they run .
25 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall
they leap like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the
stubble as a strong people set in battle array .
26 Before their face the people shall be much pained all faces
shall gather blackness .
27 They shall run like mighty men they shall climb the wall
like men of war and they shall march every one on his ways and
they shall not break their ranks .
28 Neither shall one thrust another they shall walk every one
in his path and when they fall upon the sword they shall not be
wounded .
29 They shall run to and fro in the city they shall run upon
the wall they shall climb up upon the houses they shall enter in
at the windows like a thief .
210 The earth shall quake before them the heavens shall
tremble the sun and the moon shall be dark and the stars shall
withdraw their shining .
211 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army for his
camp is very great for he is strong that executeth his word for
the day of the LORD is great and very terrible and who can abide
it .
212 Therefore also now saith the LORD turn ye even to me with
all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with
mourning .
213 And rend your heart and not your garments and turn unto
the LORD your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger
and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil .
214 Who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a
blessing behind him even a meat offering and a drink offering
unto the LORD your God .
215 Blow the trumpet in Zion sanctify a fast call a solemn
assembly .
216 Gather the people sanctify the congregation assemble the
elders gather the children and those that suck the breasts let
the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her
closet .
217 Let the priests the ministers of the LORD weep between the
porch and the altar and let them say Spare thy people O LORD and
give not thine heritage to reproach that the heathen should rule
over them wherefore should they say among the people Where is
their God .
218 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land and pity his
people .
219 Yea the LORD will answer and say unto his people Behold I
will send you corn and wine and oil and ye shall be satisfied
therewith and I will no more make you a reproach among the
heathen .
220 But I will remove far off from you the northern army and
will drive him into a land barren and desolate with his face
toward the east sea and his hinder part toward the utmost sea
and his stink shall come up and his ill savour shall come up
because he hath done great things .
221 Fear not O land be glad and rejoice for the LORD will do
great things .
222 Be not afraid ye beasts of the field for the pastures of
the wilderness do spring for the tree beareth her fruit the fig
tree and the vine do yield their strength .
223 Be glad then ye children of Zion and rejoice in the LORD
your God for he hath given you the former rain moderately and he
will cause to come down for you the rain the former rain and the
latter rain in the first month .
224 And the floors shall be full of wheat and the vats shall
overflow with wine and oil .
225 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath
eaten the cankerworm and the caterpillar and the palmerworm my
great army which I sent among you .
226 And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the
name of the LORD your God that hath dealt wondrously with you
and my people shall never be ashamed .
227 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and
that I am the LORD your God and none else and my people shall
never be ashamed .
228 And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out
my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall
see visions .
229 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those
days will I pour out my spirit .
230 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth
blood and fire and pillars of smoke .
231 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into
blood before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come .
232 And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the
name of the LORD shall be delivered for in mount Zion and in
Jerusalem shall be deliverance as the LORD hath said and in the
remnant whom the LORD shall call .
* 31 For behold in those days and in that time when I shall
bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem .
32 I will also gather all nations and will bring them down
into the valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there
for my people and for my heritage Israel whom they have
scattered among the nations and parted my land .
33 And they have cast lots for my people and have given a boy
for an harlot and sold a girl for wine that they might drink .
34 Yea and what have ye to do with me O Tyre and Zidon and all
the coasts of Palestine will ye render me a recompense and if ye
recompense me swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense
upon your own head .
35 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold and have
carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things .
36 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem
have ye sold unto the Grecians that ye might remove them far
from their border .
37 Behold I will raise them out of the place whither ye have
sold them and will return your recompense upon your own head .
38 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand
of the children of Judah and they shall sell them to the Sabeans
to a people far off for the LORD hath spoken it .
39 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles Prepare war wake up the
mighty men let all the men of war draw near let them come up .
310 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks
into spears let the weak say I am strong .
311 Assemble yourselves and come all ye heathen and gather
yourselves together round about thither cause thy mighty ones to
come down O LORD .
312 Let the heathen be wakened and come up to the valley of
Jehoshaphat for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round
about .
313 Put ye in the sickle for the harvest is ripe come get you
down for the press is full the vats overflow for their
wickedness is great .
314 Multitudes multitudes in the valley of decision for the
day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision .
315 The sun and the moon shall be darkened and the stars shall
withdraw their shining .
316 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice
from Jerusalem and the heavens and the earth shall shake but the
LORD will be the hope of his people and the strength of the
children of Israel .
317 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in
Zion my holy mountain then shall Jerusalem be holy and there
shall no strangers pass through her any more .
318 And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains
shall drop down new wine and the hills shall flow with milk and
all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters and a fountain
shall come forth of the house of the LORD and shall water the
valley of Shittim .
319 Egypt shall be a desolation and Edom shall be a desolate
wilderness for the violence against the children of Judah
because they have shed innocent blood in their land .
320 But Judah shall dwell for ever and Jerusalem from
generation to generation .
321 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed
for the LORD dwelleth in Zion .
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