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1 This is the word of Yahweh that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
2 Hear this, you elders,
and listen, all you inhabitants of the land.
Has anything like this happened in your days
or in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell your sons about it,
and let your sons tell their sons,
and their sons the next generation.
4 What the cutting locust has left the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust has left the hopping locust has eaten;
and what the hopping locust has left the destroying locust has eaten.
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
Wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because the sweet wine has been cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation has come up against my land,
strong and without number.
Its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has made my vine into a waste
and has splintered my fig tree.
It has stripped its bark and thrown it away;
their branches are bare white.
8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.
9 The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from Yahweh’s house.
The priests, Yahweh’s servants, mourn.
10 The fields are ruined,
the ground is mourning because the grain has been destroyed.
The new wine has dried up,
the oil fails.
11 Be ashamed, you farmers,
and wail, you vine growers,
for the wheat and the barley.
For the harvest of the fields has perished.
12 The vines have withered and the fig trees have dried up,
the pomegranate trees, also the palm trees, and the apple trees—
all the trees of the field have withered.
For joy has withered away from the sons of mankind.
13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests!
Wail, you servants of the altar.
Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you servants of my God.
For the grain offering and the drink offering have been withheld from the house of your God.
14 Call for a holy fast,
and call a holy assembly.
Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of Yahweh your God,
and cry to Yahweh.
15 Alas for the day!
For the day of Yahweh is almost here.
With it will come destruction from the Almighty.
16 Has not food been cut off from before our eyes,
and joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seeds shrivel under their clods,
the storehouses are desolate,
and the granaries have been broken down,
because the grain has dried up.
18 How the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are perplexed
because they have no pasture.
Also, the flocks of sheep suffer.
19 Yahweh, I cry to you.
For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
and flames have burned all the trees of the fields.
20 Even the animals of the fields pant for you,
for the water brooks have dried up,
and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.