Joel 1:2-20 - A Lament Over The Land
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And listen, all inhabitants of the land.
Or in your fathers’ days?
And let your sons tell their sons,
And their sons the next generation.
And what the
And what the creeping locust has left, the
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And wail, all you wine drinkers,
On account of the sweet wine
That is
Mighty and without number;
And it has the fangs of a lioness.
And my fig tree
It has stripped them bare and cast them away;
Their branches have become white.
For the bridegroom of her youth.
From the house of the Lord.
The
The ministers of the Lord.
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil
Wail, O vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the
And the fig tree
The
All the trees of the field dry up.
Indeed,
From the sons of men.
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And lament, O priests;
Come,
O ministers of my God,
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
Proclaim a
Gather the elders
And all the inhabitants of the land
To the house of the Lord your God,
And
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For the
And it will come as
Gladness and
The storehouses are desolate,
The barns are torn down,
For the grain is dried up.
The herds of cattle wander aimlessly
Because there is no pasture for them;
Even the flocks of sheep
For
And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.
For the
And fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.