king james study

JOE-1:1  The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

JOE-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?

JOE-1:3  Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their

children, and their children another generation.

JOE-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 caterpillar eaten.

JOE-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.

JOE-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.

JOE-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.

JOE-1:8  Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her

youth.

JOE-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.

JOE-1:10  The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the

new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

JOE-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.

JOE-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.

JOE-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.

JOE-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.

JOE-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.

JOE-1:16  Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness

from the house of our God?

JOE-1:17  The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate,

the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

JOE-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.

JOE-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.

JOE-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.

JOE-2:1  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;

JOE-2:2  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.

JOE-2:3  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.

JOE-2:4  The appearance of them [is] as the appearance of horses; and as

horsemen, so shall they run.

JOE-2:5  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.

JOE-2:6  Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall

gather blackness.

JOE-2:7  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:

JOE-2:8  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.

JOE-2:9  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.

JOE-2:10  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:

JOE-2:11  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?

JOE-2:12  Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye [even] to me with all

your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

JOE-2:13  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.

JOE-2:14  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?

JOE-2:15  Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

JOE-2:16  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.

JOE-2:17  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?

JOE-2:18  Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

JOE-2:19  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:

JOE-2:20  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.

JOE-2:21  Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great

things.

JOE-2:22  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.

JOE-2:23  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].

JOE-2:24  And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow

with wine and oil.

JOE-2:25  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.

JOE-2:26  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.

JOE-2:27  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.

JOE-2:28  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:

JOE-2:29  And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will

I pour out my spirit.

JOE-2:30  And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and

fire, and pillars of smoke.

JOE-2:31  The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,

before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

JOE-2:32  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.

JOE-3:1  For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring

again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

JOE-3:2  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.

JOE-3:3  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.

JOE-3:4  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;

JOE-3:5  Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into

your temples my goodly pleasant things:

JOE-3:6  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.

JOE-3:7  Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them,

and will return your recompense upon your own head:

JOE-3:8  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].

JOE-3:9  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:

JOE-3:10  Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears:

let the weak say, I [am] strong.

JOE-3:11  Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves

together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.

JOE-3:12  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.

JOE-3:13  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.

JOE-3:14  Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the

LORD [is] near in the valley of decision.

JOE-3:15  The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw

their shining.

JOE-3:16  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.

JOE-3:17  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.

JOE-3:18  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.

JOE-3:19  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.

JOE-3:20  But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to

generation.

JOE-3:21  For I will cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the

LORD dwelleth in Zion.



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