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Book 29 Joel
29:001:001 The word of the LORD
that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
29:001:002 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?
29:001:003 Tell ye your children
of it, and let your children tell their
children, and their
children another generation.
29:001:004 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.
29:001:005 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.
29:001:006 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.
29:001:007 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.
29:001:008 Lament like a virgin
girded with sackcloth for the husband of
her youth.
29:001:009 The meat offering and
the drink offering is cut off from the
house of the LORD; the
priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
29:001:010 The field is wasted,
the land mourneth; for the corn is
wasted: the new wine is
dried up, the oil languisheth.
29:001:011 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.
29:001:012 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.
29:001:013 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.
29:001:014 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,
29:001:015 Alas for the day! for
the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a
destruction from the
Almighty shall it come.
29:001:016 Is not the meat cut off
before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness
from the house of our
God?
29:001:017 The seed is rotten
under their clods, the garners are laid
desolate, the barns are
broken down; for the corn is withered.
29:001:018 How do the beasts
groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed,
because they have no
pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are
made desolate.
29:001:019 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.
29:001:020 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.
29:002:001 Blow ye the trumpet in
Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy
mountain: let all the
inhabitants of the land tremble: for the
day of the LORD cometh,
for it is nigh at hand;
29:002:002 A day of darkness and
of gloominess, a day of clouds and of
thick darkness, as the
morning spread upon the mountains: a
great people and a
strong; there hath not been ever the like,
neither shall be any
more after it, even to the years of many
generations.
29:002:003 A fire devoureth before
them; and behind them a flame burneth:
the land is as the
garden of Eden before them, and behind them
a desolate wilderness;
yea, and nothing shall escape them.
29:002:004 The appearance of them
is as the appearance of horses; and as
horsemen, so shall they
run.
29:002:005 Like the noise of
chariots on the tops of mountains shall they
leap, like the noise of
a flame of fire that devoureth the
stubble, as a strong
people set in battle array.
29:002:006 Before their face the
people shall be much pained: all faces
shall gather blackness.
29:002:007 They shall run like
mighty men; they shall climb the wall like
men of war; and they
shall march every one on his ways, and
they shall not break
their ranks:
29:002:008 Neither shall one
thrust another; they shall walk every one in
his path: and when they
fall upon the sword, they shall not be
wounded.
29:002:009 They shall run to and
fro in the city; they shall run upon the
wall, they shall climb
up upon the houses; they shall enter in
at the windows like a
thief.
29:002:010 The earth shall quake
before them; the heavens shall tremble:
the sun and the moon
shall be dark, and the stars shall
withdraw their shining:
29:002:011 And the LORD shall
utter his voice before his army: for his
camp is very great: for
he is strong that executeth his word:
for the day of the LORD
is great and very terrible; and who
can abide it?
29:002:012 Therefore also now,
saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with
all your heart, and
with fasting, and with weeping, and with
mourning:
29:002:013 And rend your heart,
and not your garments, and turn unto the
LORD your God: for he
is gracious and merciful, slow to anger,
and of great kindness,
and repenteth him of the evil.
29:002:014 Who knoweth if he will
return and repent, and leave a blessing
behind him; even a meat
offering and a drink offering unto the
LORD your God?
29:002:015 Blow the trumpet in
Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn
assembly:
29:002:016 Gather the people,
sanctify the congregation, assemble the
elders, gather the
children, and those that suck the breasts:
let the bridegroom go
forth of his chamber, and the bride out
of her closet.
29:002:017 Let the priests, the
ministers of the LORD, weep between the
porch and the altar,
and let them say, Spare thy people, O
LORD, and give not
thine heritage to reproach, that the
heathen should rule
over them: wherefore should they say among
the people, Where is
their God?
29:002:018 Then will the LORD be
jealous for his land, and pity his
people.
29:002:019 Yea, the LORD will
answer and say unto his people, Behold, I
will send you corn, and
wine, and oil, and ye shall be
satisfied therewith:
and I will no more make you a reproach
among the heathen:
29:002:020 But I will remove far
off from you the northern army, and will
drive him into a land
barren and desolate, with his face
toward the east sea,
and his hinder part toward the utmost
sea, and his stink
shall come up, and his ill savour shall
come up, because he
hath done great things.
29:002:021 Fear not, O land; be
glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do
great things.
29:002:022 Be not afraid, ye
beasts of the field: for the pastures of the
wilderness do spring,
for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig
tree and the vine do
yield their strength.
29:002:023 Be glad then, ye
children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD
your God: for he hath
given you the former rain moderately,
and he will cause to
come down for you the rain, the former
rain, and the latter
rain in the first month.
29:002:024 And the floors shall be
full of wheat, and the vats shall
overflow with wine and
oil.
29:002:025 And I will restore to
you the years that the locust hath
eaten, the cankerworm,
and the caterpiller, and the
palmerworm, my great
army which I sent among you.
29:002:026 And ye shall eat in
plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the
name of the LORD your
God, that hath dealt wondrously with
you: and my people
shall never be ashamed.
29:002:027 And ye shall know that
I am in the midst of Israel, and that I
am the LORD your God,
and none else: and my people shall never
be ashamed.
29:002:028 And it shall come to
pass afterward, that I will pour out my
spirit upon all flesh;
and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, your old men
shall dream dreams, your young men
shall see visions:
29:002:029 And also upon the
servants and upon the handmaids in those
days will I pour out my
spirit.
29:002:030 And I will shew wonders
in the heavens and in the earth,
blood, and fire, and
pillars of smoke.
29:002:031 The sun shall be turned
into darkness, and the moon into
blood, before the great
and terrible day of the LORD come.
29:002:032 And it shall come to
pass, that whosoever shall call on the
name of the LORD shall
be delivered: for in mount Zion and in
Jerusalem shall be
deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in
the remnant whom the
LORD shall call.
29:003:001 For, behold, in those
days, and in that time, when I shall
bring again the
captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
29:003:002 I will also gather all
nations, and will bring them down into
the valley of
Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for
my people and for my
heritage Israel, whom they have scattered
among the nations, and
parted my land.
29:003:003 And they have cast lots
for my people; and have given a boy
for an harlot, and sold
a girl for wine, that they might
drink.
29:003:004 Yea, and what have ye
to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and
all the coasts of
Palestine? will ye render me a recompence?
and if ye recompense
me, swiftly and speedily will I return
your recompence upon
your own head;
29:003:005 Because ye have taken
my silver and my gold, and have carried
into your temples my
goodly pleasant things:
29:003:006 The children also of
Judah and the children of Jerusalem have
ye sold unto the
Grecians, that ye might remove them far from
their border.
29:003:007 Behold, I will raise
them out of the place whither ye have
sold them, and will
return your recompence upon your own head:
29:003:008 And I will sell your
sons and your daughters into the hand of
the children of Judah,
and they shall sell them to the
Sabeans, to a people
far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
29:003:009 Proclaim ye this among
the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the
mighty men, let all the
men of war draw near; let them come
up:
29:003:010 Beat your plowshares
into swords and your pruninghooks into
spears: let the weak
say, I am strong.
29:003:011 Assemble yourselves,
and come, all ye heathen, and gather
yourselves together
round about: thither cause thy mighty ones
to come down, O LORD.
29:003:012 Let the heathen be
wakened, and come up to the valley of
Jehoshaphat: for there
will I sit to judge all the heathen
round about.
29:003:013 Put ye in the sickle,
for the harvest is ripe: come, get you
down; for the press is
full, the fats overflow; for their
wickedness is great.
29:003:014 Multitudes, multitudes
in the valley of decision: for the day
of the LORD is near in
the valley of decision.
29:003:015 The sun and the moon
shall be darkened, and the stars shall
withdraw their shining.
29:003:016 The LORD also shall
roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the
heavens and the earth shall shake: but the
LORD will be the hope
of his people, and the strength of the
children of Israel.
29:003:017 So shall ye know that I
am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion,
my holy mountain: then
shall Jerusalem be holy, and there
shall no strangers pass
through her any more.
29:003:018 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that the mountains
shall drop down new
wine, and the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the rivers of
Judah shall flow with waters, and a
fountain shall come
forth out of the house of the LORD, and
shall water the valley
of Shittim.
29:003:019 Egypt shall be a
desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate
wilderness, for the
violence against the children of Judah,
because they have shed
innocent blood in their land.
29:003:020 But Judah shall dwell
for ever, and Jerusalem from generation
to generation.
29:003:021 For I will cleanse
their blood that I have not cleansed: for
the LORD dwelleth in
Zion.
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