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The American Standard Version of 1901

Joel 1

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The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

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Hear 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?

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Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

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That which 1 the palmer-worm hath left hath 1 the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath 1 the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath 1 the caterpillar eaten. 1) Probably, different kinds of locusts, or locusts in different stages of growth.

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Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

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For 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.

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He hath laid my vine waste, and 1 barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it 2 away; the branches thereof are made white. 1) Or broken 2) Or down

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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

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The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is 1 dried up, the oil languisheth. 1) Or ashamed

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1 Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished. 1) Or The husbandmen are confounded, the vinedressers wail

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The vine is 1 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 1 withered away from the sons of men. 1) Or ashamed

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Gird 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.

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Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the 1 old men and all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah. 1) Or elders

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Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from 1 the Almighty shall it come. 1) Heb Shaddai

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Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea , joy and gladness from the house of our God?

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The seeds 1 rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is 2 withered. 1) Or shrivel 2) Or ashamed

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How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep 1 are made desolate. 1) Or suffer punishment

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O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the 1 pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. 1) Or folds

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Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the 1 pastures of the wilderness. 1) Or folds



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