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This is the LORD's message to Joel son of Pethuel. |
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Pay attention, you older people; everyone in Judah, listen. Has anything like this ever happened in your time or the time of your ancestors? |
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Tell your children about it; they will tell their children, who in turn will tell the next generation. |
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Swarm after swarm of locusts settled on the crops; what one swarm left, the next swarm devoured. |
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Wake up and weep, you drunkards; cry, you wine-drinkers; the grapes for making new wine have been destroyed. |
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An army of locusts has attacked our land; they are powerful and too many to count; their teeth are as sharp as those of a lion. |
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They have destroyed our grapevines and chewed up our fig trees. They have stripped off the bark, till the branches are white. |
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Cry, you people, like a young woman who mourns the death of the man she was going to marry. |
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There is no grain or wine to offer in the Temple; the priests mourn because they have no offerings for the LORD. |
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The fields are bare; the ground mourns because the grain is destroyed, the grapes are dried up, and the olive trees are withered. |
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Grieve, you farmers; cry, you that take care of the vineyards, because the wheat, the barley, yes all the crops are destroyed. |
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The grapevines and fig trees have withered; all the fruit trees have wilted and died. The joy of the people is gone. |
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Put on sackcloth and weep, you priests who serve at the altar! Go into the Temple and mourn all night! There is no grain or wine to offer your God. |
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Give orders for a fast; call an assembly! Gather the leaders and all the people of Judah into the Temple of the LORD your God and cry out to him! |
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The day of the LORD is near, the day when the Almighty brings destruction. What terror that day will bring! |
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We look on helpless as our crops are destroyed. There is no joy in the Temple of our God. |
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The seeds die in the dry earth. There is no grain to be stored, and so the empty granaries are in ruins. |
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The cattle are bellowing in distress because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep also suffer. |
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I cry out to you, LORD, because the pastures and trees are dried up, as though a fire had burned them. |
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Even the wild animals cry out to you because the streams have become dry. |
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