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1:1The
word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 1:2Hear this, ye
old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in
your days, or in the days of your fathers? 1:3Tell ye your children of it, and
let your children tell their children, and their children
another generation. 1:4That which the palmer-worm hath left
hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the
canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the
caterpillar eaten. 1:5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and
wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut
off from your mouth. 1:6For a nation is come up upon my land,
strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath
the jaw-teeth of a lioness. 1:7He 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. 1:8Lament like a virgin girded with
sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 1:9The meal-offering and the
drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests,
Jehovah's ministers, mourn. 1:10The field is laid waste, the land
mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil
languisheth. 1:11Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail,
O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of
the field is perished. 1:12The vine is withered, 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: for joy is
withered away from the sons of men. 1:13Gird yourselves with
sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar;
come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the
meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your
God. 1:14Sanctify a fast, call a solemn
assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land
unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah. 1:15Alas for the
day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the
Almighty shall it come. 1:16Is not the food cut off before our
eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 1:17The seeds rot
under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken
down; for the grain is withered. 1:18How do the beasts groan! the herds of
cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of
sheep are made desolate. 1:19O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the
fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath
burned all the trees of the field. 1:20Yea, the beasts of the field pant
unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.
2:1Blow 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 Jehovah cometh, for it is
nigh at hand; 2:2a day of darkness and gloominess, a
day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a
great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither
shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations. 2:3A 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 none
hath escaped them. 2:4The appearance of them is as the
appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so do they run. 2:5Like the noise
of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a
flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle
array. 2:6At
their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale. 2:7They run like
mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one
on his ways, and they break not their ranks. 2:8Neither doth one thrust another; they
march every one in his path; and they burst through the weapons, and break
not off their course. 2:9They leap upon the city; they run upon
the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like
a thief. 2:10The earth quaketh before them; the
heavens tremble; the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw
their shining. 2:11And Jehovah uttereth his voice before
his army; for his camp is very great; for he is strong that executeth his
word; for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can abide
it? 2:12Yet
even now, saith Jehovah, turn ye unto me with all your heart, and with
fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 2:13and rend your heart, and not your
garments, and turn unto Jehovah your God; for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repenteth him of the
evil. 2:14Who
knoweth whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind
him, even a meal-offering and a drink-offering unto Jehovah your God?
2:15Blow the
trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly; 2:16gather the
people, sanctify the assembly, assemble the old men, gather the children,
and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his
chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 2:17Let the priests, the ministers of
Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy
people, O Jehovah, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the nations
should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where
is their God? 2:18Then was Jehovah jealous for his
land, and had pity on his people. 2:19And Jehovah answered and said unto
his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and new wine, and oil, and ye
shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among
the nations; 2:20but I will remove far off from you
the northern army, and will drive it into a land barren and
desolate, its forepart into the eastern sea, and its hinder part into the
western sea; and its stench shall come up, and its ill savor shall come
up, because it hath done great things. 2:21Fear not, O land, be glad and
rejoice; for Jehovah hath done great things. 2:22Be not afraid, ye beasts of the
field; for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth
its fruit, the fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength. 2:23Be glad then,
ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he giveth you
the former rain in just measure, and he causeth to come down for you the
rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month.
2:24And the
floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine
and oil. 2:25And I will restore to you the years
that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the
palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you. 2:26And ye shall
eat in plenty and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of Jehovah your
God, that hath dealt wondrously with you; and my people shall never be put
to shame. 2:27And ye shall know that I am in the
midst of Israel, and that I am Jehovah your God, and there is none else;
and my people shall never be put to shame. 2:28And 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: 2:29and also upon the servants and upon
the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit. 2:30And I will show
wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, and fire, and pillars of
smoke. 2:31The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of
Jehovah cometh. 2:32And it shall come to pass, that
whosoever shall call on the name of Jehovah shall be delivered; for in
mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as Jehovah
hath said, and among the remnant those whom Jehovah doth call.
3:1For,
behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the
captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 3:2I will gather all nations, and will
bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute
judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom
they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land, 3:3and have cast
lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for
wine, that they may drink. 3:4Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre,
and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a
recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return
your recompense upon your own head. 3:5Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver
and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,
3:6and have
sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of
the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border; 3:7behold, I will
stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return
your recompense upon your own head; 3:8and I will sell your sons and your
daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them
to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken it.
3:9Proclaim
ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all
the men of war draw near, let them come up. 3:10Beat your plowshares into swords, and
your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 3:11Haste ye, and
come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together: thither
cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah. 3:12Let the nations bestir themselves,
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge
all the nations round about. 3:13Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest
is ripe: come, tread ye; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for
their wickedness is great. 3:14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley
of decision! for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
3:15The sun
and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. 3:16And Jehovah
will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens
and the earth shall shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge unto his people,
and a stronghold to the children of Israel. 3:17So shall ye know that I am Jehovah
your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy,
and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. 3:18And it shall
come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow
with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah,
and shall water the valley of Shittim. 3:19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom
shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of
Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 3:20But Judah shall
abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 3:21And I will
cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Jehovah dwelleth in
Zion.
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