Joel 1

1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. ‡ Act 2:16Jer 1:22Pe 1:21Ezk 1:3Hos 1:1 2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? ‡ Jol 2:2Hos 5:1Jer 30:7Job 8:8Amo 3:1Amo 4:1Amo 5:1Dan 12:1 +163 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. ‡ Deu 6:7Psa 145:4Psa 71:18Exo 13:14Psa 78:3-8Exo 10:1-2Isa 38:19Jos 4:21-22 +24 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. ¹ ‡ Jol 2:25Amo 4:9Amo 7:1Psa 78:46Deu 28:38Exo 10:4Isa 33:4Psa 105:34 +95 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. ‡ Jas 5:1Luk 21:34-36Isa 32:10-12Amo 6:3-7Isa 24:7-11Jer 4:8Ezk 30:2Jol 1:11 +56 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. ‡ Jol 2:25Isa 8:8Jol 2:2-11Pro 30:14Rev 9:7-10Hos 9:3Isa 32:13Pro 30:25-27 +17 He 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. ² ‡ Amo 4:9Isa 5:6Jol 1:12Exo 10:15Hab 3:17Hos 2:12Isa 24:7Jer 8:13 +1

8 ¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. ‡ Isa 22:12Mal 2:15Jas 5:1Amo 8:10Isa 24:7-12Isa 32:11Jas 4:8-9Jer 3:4 +49 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn. ‡ Jol 2:14Jol 2:17Hos 9:4Jol 1:13Isa 61:6Lam 1:162Ch 13:10Jol 1:16 +210 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. ‡ Hos 4:3Hos 9:2Jer 12:11Jol 1:5Hag 1:11Jer 12:4Jer 14:2-6Jer 48:33 +511 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. ‡ Jer 14:3-4Isa 17:11Jer 9:12Amo 5:16Rom 5:5 12 The vine is dried up, 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: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. ‡ Isa 16:10Isa 24:11Hab 3:17-18Hos 9:1-2Jol 1:10Jol 1:16Sng 2:3Hag 2:19 +813 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. ‡ Jer 4:8Jol 1:8-91Ki 21:27Ezk 7:18Jer 9:10Jol 2:17Jon 3:5-81Co 4:1 +9

14 ¶ Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, ³ ‡ Jol 2:15-162Ch 20:132Ch 20:3-4Deu 29:10-11Jon 3:8Lev 23:36Neh 9:2-3Neh 8:18 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. ‡ Isa 13:6-9Jer 30:7Zep 1:14-18Ezk 7:2-12Jas 5:9Jol 2:11Jol 2:31Rev 6:17 +516 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? ‡ Deu 12:6-7Psa 105:3Psa 43:4Amo 4:6-7Deu 12:11-12Deu 16:10-15Isa 3:7Isa 62:8-9 +217 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. ⁴ ‡ Gen 23:16Isa 17:10-11 18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. ‡ Hos 4:3Jer 12:4Jer 14:5-61Ki 18:5Jol 1:20Rom 8:22 19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. ⁵ ‡ Jer 9:10Psa 50:15Amo 7:4Mic 7:7Hab 3:17-18Jol 2:3Luk 18:7Psa 91:15 +220 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. ‡ Psa 104:211Ki 17:71Ki 18:5Job 38:41Psa 145:15Psa 147:9