Joel

¹ The word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:

² And give ear, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days Or in your fathers’ days?

³ And let your sons recount about it to their sons, And their sons to the next generation.

⁴ And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has consumed; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has consumed.

⁵ And wail, all you wine drinkers, On account of the sweet wine That is cut off from your mouth.

⁶ Mighty and without number; Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it has the fangs of a lioness.

⁷ And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white.

⁸ For the bridegroom of her youth.

⁹ From the house of Yahweh. The priests mourn, The ministers of Yahweh.

¹⁰ The land mourns, For the grain is destroyed, The new wine dries up, Fresh oil fails.

¹¹ Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley, Because the harvest of the field perishes.

¹² And the fig tree fails; The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree, All the trees of the field dry up. Indeed, rejoicing dries up From the sons of men.

¹³ Gird yourselves with sackcloth And lament, O priests; Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God; For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.

¹⁴ Call for a solemn assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land To the house of Yahweh your God, And cry out to Yahweh.

¹⁵ For the day of Yahweh is near, And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

¹⁶ Gladness and joy from the house of our God?

¹⁷ The storehouses are desolate; The barns are pulled down, For the grain is dried up.

¹⁸ The herds of cattle wander aimlessly Because there is no pasture for them; Even the flocks of sheep suffer.

¹⁹ For fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness, And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.

²⁰ For the water brooks are dried up, And fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness.