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<h1>Joel</h1>
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<span>
[ <a href="#1">1</a> | <a href="#2">2</a> | <a href=
"#3">3</a>]</span>
<hr width="50%" /><div class="book">
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="1">Joel 1</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of
Phatuel.</span></li>
<li><span>Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants
of the land: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of
your fathers?</span></li>
<li><span>Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children
tell their children, and their children to another
generation.</span></li>
<li><span>That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath
eaten: and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten:
and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath
destroyed.</span></li>
<li><span>Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that
take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your
mouth.</span></li>
<li><span>For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without
number: his teeth are like the teeth of a lion: and his cheek teeth
as of a lion's whelp.</span></li>
<li><span>He hath laid my vineyard waste, and hath pilled off the
bark of my fig tree: he hath stripped it bare, and cast it away;
the branches thereof are made white.</span></li>
<li><span>Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the
husband of her youth.</span></li>
<li><span>Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the
Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned:</span></li>
<li><span>The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for
the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath
languished.</span></li>
<li><span>The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled
for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field
is perished.</span></li>
<li><span>The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath
languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple
tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is
withdrawn from the children of men.</span></li>
<li><span>Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye
ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of
my God: because sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of
your God.</span></li>
<li><span>Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly; gather together the
ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your
God: and cry ye to the Lord:</span></li>
<li><span>Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is
at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the
mighty.</span></li>
<li><span>Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and
gladness from the house of our God?</span></li>
<li><span>The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are
destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is
confounded.</span></li>
<li><span>Why did the beast groan, why did the herds of cattle low?
because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep
are perished.</span></li>
<li><span>To thee, 0 Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured
the beautiful places of the wilderness, and the flame hath burnt
all the trees of the country.</span></li>
<li><span>Yea and the beasts of the field have looked up to thee,
as a garden bed that thirsteth after rain, for the springs of
waters are dried up, and fire hath devoured the beautiful places of
the wilderness.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="2">Joel 2</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy
mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: because the
day of the Lord cometh, because it is nigh at hand,</span></li>
<li><span>A day of darkness, and of gloominess, a day of clouds and
whirlwinds: a numerous and strong people as the morning spread upon
the mountains: the like to it hath not been from the beginning, nor
shall be after it even to the years of generation and
generation.</span></li>
<li><span>Before the face thereof a devouring fire, and behind it a
burning flame: the land is like a garden of pleasure before it, and
behind it a desolate wilderness, neither is there any one that can
escape it.</span></li>
<li><span>The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses,
and they shall run like horsemen.</span></li>
<li><span>They shall leap like the noise of chariots upon the tops
of mountains, like the noise of a flame of fire devouring the
stubble, as a strong people prepared to battle.</span></li>
<li><span>At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains:
all faces shall be made like a kettle.</span></li>
<li><span>They shall run like valiant men: like men of war they
shall scale the wall: the men shall march every one on his way, and
they shall not turn aside from their ranks.</span></li>
<li><span>No one shall press upon his brother: they shall walk
every one in his path: yea, and they shall fall through the
windows, and shall take no harm.</span></li>
<li><span>They shall enter into the city: they shall run upon the
wall, they shall climb up the houses, they shall come in at the
windows as a thief.</span></li>
<li><span>At their presence the earth hath trembled, the heavens
are moved: the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars have
withdrawn their shining.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord hath uttered his voice before the face of
his army: for his armies are exceeding great, for they are strong
and execute his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very
terrible: and who can stand it?</span></li>
<li><span>Now therefore saith the Lord: Be converted to me with all
your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in
mourning.</span></li>
<li><span>And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to
the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, patient and
rich in mercy, and ready to repent of the evil.</span></li>
<li><span>Who knoweth but he will return, and forgive, and leave a
blessing behind him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your
God?</span></li>
<li><span>Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn
assembly,</span></li>
<li><span>Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble
the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck
at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the
bride out of her bride chamber.</span></li>
<li><span>Between the porch and the altar the priests the Lord's
ministers shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy
people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathen
should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where
is their God?</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord hath been zealous for his land, and hath spared
his people.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord answered and said to his people: Behold I
will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be filled with
them: and I will no more make you a reproach among the
nations.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will remove far off from you the northern enemy:
and I will drive him into a land unpassable, and desert, with his
face towards the east sea, and his hinder part towards the utmost
sea: and his stench shall ascend, and his rottenness shall go up,
because he hath done proudly.</span></li>
<li><span>Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice: for the Lord hath
done great things.</span></li>
<li><span>Fear not, ye beasts of the fields: for the beautiful
places of the wilderness are sprung, for the tree hath brought
forth its fruit, the fig tree, and the vine have yielded their
strength.</span></li>
<li><span>And you, O children of Sion, rejoice, and be joyful in
the Lord your God: because he hath given you a teacher of justice,
and he will make the early and the latter rain to come down to you
as in the beginning.</span></li>
<li><span>And the floors shall be filled with wheat, and the
presses shall overflow with wine and oil.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will restore to you the ears which the locust, and
the bruchus, and the mildew, and the palmerworm have eaten; my
great host which I sent upon you.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall eat in plenty, and shall be filled: and you
shall praise the name of the Lord your God, who hath done wonders
with you, and my people shall not be confounded for
ever.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: and
I am the Lord your God, and there is none besides: and my people
shall not be confounded for ever.</span></li>
<li><span>And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour
out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy: your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men
shall see visions.</span></li>
<li><span>Moreover upon my servants and handmaids in those days I
will pour forth my spirit.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will shew wonders in heaven; and in earth, blood,
and fire, and vapour of smoke.</span></li>
<li><span>The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into
blood: before the great and dreadful day of the Lord doth
come.</span></li>
<li><span>And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved: for in mount Sion, and in
Jerusalem shall be salvation, as the Lord hath said, and in the
residue whom the Lord shall call.</span></li>
</ol>
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<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="3">Joel 3</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall
bring back the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem:</span></li>
<li><span>I will gather together all nations, and will bring them
down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there
for my people, and for my inheritance Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and have parted my land.</span></li>
<li><span>And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they
have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that
they might drink.</span></li>
<li><span>But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and
all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on
me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return
you a recompense upon your own head.</span></li>
<li><span>For you have taken away my silver and my gold: and my
desirable and most beautiful things you have carried into your
temples.</span></li>
<li><span>And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem
you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove
them far off from their own country.</span></li>
<li><span>Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you
have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own
heads.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will sell your sons, and your daughters by the
hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them to the
Sabeans, a nation far off, for the Lord hath spoken it.</span></li>
<li><span>Proclaim ye this among the nations: prepare war, rouse up
the strong: let them come, let all the men of war come
up.</span></li>
<li><span>Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into
spears. Let the weak say: I am strong.</span></li>
<li><span>Break forth, and come, all ye nations, from round about,
and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy
strong ones to fall down.</span></li>
<li><span>Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the
valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round
about.</span></li>
<li><span>Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and
go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their
wickedness is multiplied.</span></li>
<li><span>Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the
day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction.</span></li>
<li><span>The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have
withdrawn their shining.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice
from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and
the Lord shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the
children of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling
in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers
shall pass through it no more.</span></li>
<li><span>And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains
shall drop down sweetness, and the hills shall flow with milk: and
waters shall flow through all the rivers of Juda: and a fountain
shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the
torrent of thorns.</span></li>
<li><span>Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness
destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of
Juda, and have shed innocent blood in their land.</span></li>
<li><span>And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to
generation and generation.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will cleanse their blood which I had not cleansed:
and the Lord will dwell in Sion.</span></li>
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