Joel 1:2-20 - A Lament Over The Land
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listen, all you inhabitants of the land.
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
or in the days of your ancestors?
and let your children tell their children,
and their children the next generation.
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust has left,
the young locust
and what the young locust has left,
the destroying locust
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wail, all you wine drinkers,
because of the sweet wine,
for it has been taken from your mouth.
powerful and without number;
its teeth are the teeth of a lion,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
and splintered My fig tree.
It has stripped off its bark and thrown it away;
its branches have turned white.
mourning for the husband of her youth.
from the house of the Lord;
the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.
the land grieves;
indeed, the grain is destroyed;
the new wine is dried up;
and the olive oil fails.
wail, you vinedressers,
over the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.
and the fig tree is withered;
the pomegranate,
all the trees of the orchard—have withered.
Indeed, human joy has dried up.
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wail,
Come and spend the night in sackcloth,
you ministers of my God,
because grain and drink offerings
are withheld from the house of your God.
proclaim an assembly!
Gather the elders
and all the residents of the land
at the house of the Lord your God,
and cry out to the Lord.
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For the Day of the Lord is near
and will come as devastation from the Almighty.
before our eyes,
joy and gladness
from the house of our God?
The storehouses are in ruin,
and the granaries are broken down,
because the grain has withered away.
The herds of cattle wander in confusion
since they have no pasture.
Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.
for fire has consumed
the pastures of the wilderness,
and flames have devoured
all the trees of the countryside.
for the river beds are dried up,
and fire has consumed
the pastures of the wilderness.
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