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The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Explain This Verse
2.
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? Explain This Verse
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Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. Explain This Verse
4.
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. Explain This Verse
5.
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. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
7.
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. Explain This Verse
8.
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. Explain This Verse
9.
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn. Explain This Verse
10.
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
14.
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, Explain This Verse
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Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Explain This Verse
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Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? Explain This Verse
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The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. Explain This Verse
18.
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse