<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1023197">Joel</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1023198">Chapter 1</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1023187">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1023219">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023199">1</a>. THE word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023200">2</a>. 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?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023201">3</a>. Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023202">4</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023203">5</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023204">6</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023205">7</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023206">8</a>. Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023207">9</a>. The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023208">10</a>. The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023209">11</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023210">12</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023211">13</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023212">14</a>. 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,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023213">15</a>. Alas for the day!  for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023214">16</a>. Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023215">17</a>. The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023216">18</a>. How do the beasts groan!  the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023217">19</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1023218">20</a>. 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.</li>
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