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{\MTB The Book of
\par }{\MT Joel

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
of
the
Lord
which
came
to
Joel,
the
son
of
Pethuel.
\VS{2}Give
ear
to
this,
you
old
men,
and
take note,
you
people
of
the
land.
Has
this ever
been
in
your
days,
or
in
the
days
of
your
fathers?
\VS{3}Give
the story
of
it
to
your
children,
and let
them give
it
to
their
children,
and
their
children
to
another
generation.
\VS{4}What
the worm did
not make
a meal
of,
has been taken
by
the
locust;
and what
the
locust did
not take,
has been
food
for
the plant-worm;
and what
the plant-worm did
not take,
has been
food
for
the field-fly.
\VS{5}Come
out
of
your sleep,
you
who
are overcome
with
wine,
and give
yourselves
to
weeping; give cries
of
sorrow,
all
you
drinkers
of
wine,
because
of
the
sweet
wine;
for
it
has
been
cut
off
from
your
mouths.
\VS{6}For
a
nation
has
come
up
over
my
land,
strong
and
without
number;
his
teeth
are
the
teeth
of
a
lion,
and
he
has
the
back
teeth
of
a
great
lion.
\VS{7}By
him
my
vine
is
made
waste
and
my fig-tree broken:
he
has
taken all
its fruit
and sent
it
down
to
the earth;
its
branches
are
made
white.
\VS{8}Make sounds
of grief
like
a
virgin dressed
in haircloth
for
the
husband
of
her early years.
\VS{9}The
meal
offering
and
the drink
offering
have
been
cut
off
from
the
house
of
the
Lord;
the
priests,
the Lord's
servants,
are sorrowing.
\VS{10}The
fields are wasted,
the
land
has
become
dry;
for
the
grain
is wasted,
the
new
wine
is kept back,
the
oil
is poor.
\VS{11}The
farmers are
shamed,
the workers
in
the vine-gardens
give cries
of grief,
for
the
wheat
and
the
barley;
for
the produce
of
the
fields
has come
to
destruction.
\VS{12}The
vine
has
become
dry
and
the fig-tree
is feeble;
the
pomegranate
and
the palm-tree
and
the apple-tree,
even
all
the
trees
of
the
field,
are
dry:
because
joy
has
gone
from
the
sons
of
men.
\VS{13}Put haircloth round
you
and
give
yourselves
to sorrow,
you
priests;
give cries
of grief,
you
servants
of
the
altar:
come
in,
and,
clothed
in haircloth, let
the night
go past,
you
servants
of
my
God:
for
the
meal
offering
and
the drink
offering
have been
kept
back
from
the
house
of
your
God.
\VS{14}Let
a time
be fixed
for going without
food,
have
a
holy meeting, let
the
old
men,
even
all
the
people
of
the
land, come
together
to
the
house
of
the
Lord
your
God,
crying
out
to
the
Lord.
\VS{15}Sorrow
for
the
day!
for
the
day
of
the
Lord
is
near,
and
as
destruction
from
the Ruler
of
all
it
will
come.
\VS{16}Is
not
food
cut
off
before
our
eyes?
joy
and
delight
from
the
house
of
our
God?
\VS{17}The grains
have
become small
and
dry
under
the spade;
the store-houses
are
made
waste,
the grain-stores
are
broken
down;
for
the
grain
is
dry
and dead.
\VS{18}What sounds
of pain come
from
the
beasts!
the
herds
of
cattle
are
at
a loss
because
there
is
no grass
for
them;
even
the
flocks
of
sheep
are
no
longer
to
be seen.
\VS{19}O
Lord,
my
cry goes
up
to
you:
for
fire
has put
an end
to
the grass-lands
of
the waste,
and
all
the
trees
of
the
field
are
burned
with
its
flame.
\VS{20}The
beasts
of
the
field
are turning
to
you
with desire:
for
the water-streams
are
dry
and
fire
has put
an end
to
the grass-lands
of
the waste.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Let
the
horn
be
sounded
in
Zion,
and
a war-cry
in
my
holy
mountain; let
all
the
people
of
the
land
be
troubled:
for
the
day
of
the
Lord
is
coming;
\VS{2}For
a
day
of
dark
and
deep shade
is
near,
a
day
of
cloud
and black night:
like
a black
cloud
a
great
and
strong
people
is covering
the
mountains;
there
has
never
been
any
like
them
and
will
not
be
after
them
again,
from
generation
to
generation.
\VS{3}Before
them
fire sends destruction,
and
after
them
flame
is
burning:
the
land
is
like
the
garden
of
Eden
before
them,
and
after
them
an unpeopled
waste;
truly,
nothing
has
been
kept safe
from
them.
\VS{4}Their
form
is
like
the
form
of
horses,
and
they are
running
like war-horses.
\VS{5}Like
the
sound
of war-carriages
they go
jumping
on
the
tops
of
the
mountains;
like
the
noise
of
a
flame
of
fire
burning
up
the grain-stems,
like
a
strong
people lined
up
for
the
fight.
\VS{6}At
their coming
the
people
are bent
with pain:
all
faces become red
together.
\VS{7}They
are
running
like
strong
men,
they
go over
the
wall
like
men
of
war;
every
man
goes straight
on
his
way,
their lines
are
not broken.
\VS{8}No
one
is pushing
against
another;
everyone goes straight
on
his way: bursting
through
the sword points,
their order
is
not broken.
\VS{9}They make
a
rush
on
the
town,
running
on
the
wall;
they
go
up
into
the
houses
and
in
through
the
windows
like
a
thief.
\VS{10}The
earth
is
troubled
before
them
and
the
heavens
are shaking:
the
sun
and
the
moon
have
become
dark,
and
the
stars keep back
their shining:
\VS{11}And
the
Lord
is thundering
before
his
forces;
for
very
great
is
his
army;
for
he
is
strong
who
gives
effect
to
his
word:
for
the
day
of
the
Lord
is
great
and
greatly
to
be
feared,
and
who
has strength
against
it?
\VS{12}But
even
now,
says
the
Lord,
come
back
to
me
with
all
your
heart, keeping
from food,
with
weeping
and
with
sorrow:
\VS{13}Let
your
hearts
be broken,
and
not
your
clothing,
and
come
back
to
the
Lord
your
God:
for
he
is
full
of grace
and
pity,
slow
to
be
angry
and
great
in
mercy, ready
to
be
turned
from
his
purpose
of punishment.
\VS{14}May
it
not
be
that
he
will
again let
his purpose
be
changed
and let
a
blessing
come
after
him, even
a
meal
offering
and
a drink
offering
for
the
Lord
your
God?
\VS{15}Let
a
horn
be
sounded
in
Zion, let
a time
be fixed
for going without food, have
a
holy meeting:
\VS{16}Get
the
people
together, make
the mass
of
the
people
holy,
send
for
the
old
men,
get
together
the
children
and babies
at
the
breast: let
the newly married
man
come
out
of
his
room
and
the
bride
from
her tent.
\VS{17}Let
the
priests,
the
servants
of
the
Lord,
be
weeping
between
the covered
way
and
the
altar,
and
let
them
say,
Have
mercy
on
your
people,
O
Lord,
do
not
give
up
your
heritage
to
shame,
so
that
the
nations become
their
rulers:
why
let
them
say
among
the
peoples,
Where
is
their
God?
\VS{18}Then
the
Lord
had
a
care
for
the honour
of
his
land
and
had
pity
on
his
people.
\VS{19}And
the
Lord
made
answer
and
said
to
his
people,
See,
I
will
send
you
grain
and
wine
and
oil
in
full measure:
and
I
will
no
longer
let
you
be shamed
among
the
nations:
\VS{20}I
will
send
the
one
from
the north
far
away
from
you, driving
him
into
a
dry
and
waste
land,
with
his
front
to
the
sea
of
the
east
and
his
back
to
the
sea
of
the
west,
and
the
smell
of
him
will
go
up,
even
his evil
smell
will
go
up.
\VS{21}Have
no
fear,
O
land;
be
glad
with
great
joy;
for
the
Lord
has
done
great
things.
\VS{22}Have
no
fear,
you
beasts
of
the
field,
for
the grass-lands
of
the waste are becoming
green,
for
the
trees are producing
fruit,
the fig-tree
and
the
vine
give out
their
strength.
\VS{23}Be
glad,
then,
you
children
of
Zion,
and
have
joy
in
the
Lord
your
God:
for
he
gives
you food
in full measure,
making
the
rain
come
down
for
you,
the early
and
the
late
rain
as
at
the
first.
\VS{24}And
the
floors
will be
full
of
grain,
and
the crushing-places overflowing
with
wine
and
oil.
\VS{25}I
will
give
back
to
you
the
years
which
were
food
for
the
locust,
the plant-worm,
the field-fly,
and
the worm,
my
great
army
which
I
sent among
you.
\VS{26}You
will
have
food
in
full measure,
and
give
praise
to
the
name
of
the
Lord
your
God,
who
has
done
wonders
for
you:
\VS{27}And
you
will
be
certain
that
I
am
in
Israel,
and
that
I
am
the
Lord
your
God,
and
there
is
no
other:
and
my
people
will
never
be
shamed.
\VS{28}And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:
\VS{29}And on the servants and the servant-girls in those days I will send my spirit.
\VS{30}And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
\VS{31}The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.
\VS{32}And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For
in
those days
and
in
that
time,
when
I
let
the fate
of Judah
and Jerusalem
be changed,
\VS{2}I
will get
together
all
the nations,
and make
them come
down
into
the valley
of Jehoshaphat;
and
there
I
will take
up
with
them
the cause
of
my people
and
of
my heritage Israel, whom
they
have sent wandering
among
the nations,
and
of
my land
which
has been parted
by
them.
\VS{3}And
they
have
put
the fate
of
my
people
to
the decision
of chance:
giving
a boy
for
the price
of
a loose woman
and
a girl
for
a drink
of wine.
\VS{4}And
further,
what
are
you
to
me,
O Tyre
and Zidon
and
all
the circle
of Philistia?
will
you
give
me
back
any payment?
and if
you
do, quickly
and suddenly
I
will send
it
back
on
your
head,
\VS{5}For
you
have
taken
my silver
and
my gold, putting
in
the houses
of
your gods
my beautiful
and pleasing
things.
\VS{6}And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:
\VS{7}See, I will have them moved from the place where you have sent them, and will let what you have done come back on your head;
\VS{8}I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.
\VS{9}Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.
\VS{10}Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.
\VS{11}Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.
\VS{12}Let the nations be awake, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will be seated as judge of all the nations round about.
\VS{13}Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.
\VS{14}Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
\VS{15}The sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining.
\VS{16}And the Lord will be thundering from Zion, and his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will be shaking: but the Lord will be a breastplate for his people and a strong place for the children of Israel.
\VS{17}And you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, living in Zion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem will be holy, and no strange person will ever again go through her.
\VS{18}And it will come about in that day that the mountains will be dropping sweet wine, and the hills will be flowing with milk, and all the streams of Judah will be flowing with water; and a fountain will come out from the house of the Lord, watering the valley of acacia-trees.
\VS{19}Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause.
\VS{20}But Judah will be peopled for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
\VS{21}And I will send punishment for their blood, for which punishment has not been sent, for the Lord is living in Zion.
\par }