The LORD’s 1 word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. Act 2:16Jer 1:22Pe 1:21Ezk 1:3Hos 1:1
Hear this, you elders, Jol 2:2Hos 5:1Jer 30:7Job 8:8Amo 3:1Amo 4:1Amo 5:1Dan 12:1
and listen, all you inhabitants of the land!
Has this ever happened in your days,
or in the days of your fathers?
Tell your children about it, Deu 6:7Psa 145:4Psa 71:18Exo 13:14Psa 78:3-8Exo 10:1-2Isa 38:19Jos 4:21-22
and have your children tell their children,
and their children, another generation.
What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. Jol 2:25Amo 4:9Amo 7:1Psa 78:46Deu 28:38Exo 10:4Isa 33:4Psa 105:34
What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten.
What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Jas 5:1Luk 21:34-36Isa 32:10-12Amo 6:3-7Isa 24:7-11Jer 4:8Ezk 30:2Jol 1:11
Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. Jol 2:25Isa 8:8Jol 2:2-11Pro 30:14Rev 9:7-10Hos 9:3Isa 32:13Pro 30:25-27
His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
and he has the fangs of a lioness.
He has laid my vine waste, Amo 4:9Isa 5:6Jol 1:12Exo 10:15Hab 3:17Hos 2:12Isa 24:7Jer 8:13
and stripped my fig tree.
He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.
Its branches are made white.
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth Isa 22:12Mal 2:15Jas 5:1Amo 8:10Isa 24:7-12Isa 32:11Jas 4:8-9Jer 3:4
for the husband of her youth!
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house. Jol 2:14Jol 2:17Hos 9:4Jol 1:13Isa 61:6Lam 1:162Ch 13:10Jol 1:16
The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
The field is laid waste. Hos 4:3Hos 9:2Jer 12:11Jol 1:5Hag 1:11Jer 12:4Jer 14:2-6Jer 48:33
The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed,
The new wine has dried up,
and the oil languishes.
Be confounded, you farmers! Jer 14:3-4Isa 17:11Jer 9:12Amo 5:16Rom 5:5
Wail, you vineyard keepers,
for the wheat and for the barley;
for the harvest of the field has perished.
The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered— Isa 16:10Isa 24:11Hab 3:17-18Hos 9:1-2Jol 1:10Jol 1:16Sng 2:3Hag 2:19
the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,
even all of the trees of the field are withered;
for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Jer 4:8Jol 1:8-91Ki 21:27Ezk 7:18Jer 9:10Jol 2:17Jon 3:5-81Co 4:1
Wail, you ministers of the altar.
Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, 2
for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.
Sanctify a fast. Jol 2:15-162Ch 20:132Ch 20:3-4Deu 29:10-11Jon 3:8Lev 23:36Neh 9:2-3Neh 8:18
Call a solemn assembly.
Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD, your God,
and cry to the LORD.
Alas for the day! Isa 13:6-9Jer 30:7Zep 1:14-18Ezk 7:2-12Jas 5:9Jol 2:11Jol 2:31Rev 6:17
For the day of the LORD is at hand,
and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, Deu 12:6-7Psa 105:3Psa 43:4Amo 4:6-7Deu 12:11-12Deu 16:10-15Isa 3:7Isa 62:8-9
joy and gladness from the house of our God?
The seeds rot under their clods. Gen 23:16Isa 17:10-11
The granaries are laid desolate.
The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
How the animals groan! Hos 4:3Jer 12:4Jer 14:5-61Ki 18:5Jol 1:20Rom 8:22
The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture.
Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
LORD, I cry to you, Jer 9:10Psa 50:15Amo 7:4Mic 7:7Hab 3:17-18Jol 2:3Luk 18:7Psa 91:15
for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, Psa 104:211Ki 17:71Ki 18:5Job 38:41Psa 145:15Psa 147:9
for the water brooks have dried up,
and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.