1 Scroll 11 The 12 Prophets (Joel).
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.
Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children,
and their children another generation.
4 That which the palmer-worm has left has the locust eaten;
and that which the locust has left has the canker-worm eaten;
and that which the canker-worm has left has the caterpillar eaten.
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Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl,
all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation is come up upon My land, strong, and without number,
whose teeth are the teeth of a lion,
and he has the fangs of a great lion.
7 He has laid My vine waste, and barked My fig-tree:
He has made it clean bare, and cast it away; its branches are made white.
8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9 The food-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the House of the LORD;
the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
10 The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the grain is wasted;
the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
11 Be ye ashamed, ye husbandmen;
howl, ye vine-dressers,
for the wheat and for the barley;
because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languishes;
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.
13 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 food-offering and the drink-offering is withheld from the house of your God.
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 to the LORD,
15 Ah! For the day! For the Day of the LORD is near,
and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes,
and joy and gladness from the House of our God?
17 The seed has perished under their clods,
the granaries are laid desolate,
the barns are broken down;
for the grain is withered.
18 How do the beasts groan!
The herds of oxen are perplexed,
because they have no pasture;
yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
19 LORD, to Thee will I cry:
for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
20 The beasts of the field cry also to Thee:
for the rivers of waters are dried up,
and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
1 Blow a shofar in Zion, and sound an alarm in My Holy Mount:
let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the Day of the LORD comes,
for it is near at hand;
2 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 has not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it,
even to the years from generation to generation.
3 A fire devours before them;
and behind them a flame burns:
the land is as the Garden of Eden before them,
and behind them a desolate wilderness;
and nothing shall escape them.
4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses;
and as horsemen, so shall they run;
5 like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap,
like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble,
as a strong people set in battle array.
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Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness;
7 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:
8 neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path:
and when they fall upon the weapon, they shall not be wounded;
9 they shall run back and forth in the city; they shall run upon the wall,
they shall climb upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
10 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.
11 The LORD will utter His voice before His army: for His camp is very great:
for He is strong that executes His word: for the Day of the LORD is great,
and very awesome; and who can abide it?
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Therefore also now, said the LORD, Turn ye even to Me with all your heart,
and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13 and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God: for He is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relents of the evil.
14 Who knows if He will return and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him;
even a food-offering and a drink-offering to the LORD your God?
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Blow a shofar in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
16 gather the people, sanctify the Congregation, assemble the elders,
gather the children, and those that suck the breasts:
let the Bridegroom go forth from His chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the Altar,
and let them say, Spare Thy people, LORD, and give not Thy heritage to reproach,
that the heathen should rule over them: why should they say among the people, Where is their God?
18 Then will the LORD be jealous for His land, and pity His people.
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The LORD will answer and say to His people, Behold, I will send you grain, and new wine, and oil,
and ye shall be satisfied with it; and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
20 but I will remove far from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,
with his face towards the east sea,
and his hinder part towards the utmost sea,
and his odious scent shall come up,
and his ill savour shall come up,
because he has done great things.
21 Fear not, land; be glad and rejoice:
for the LORD will do great things.
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Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field:
for the pastures of the wilderness do spring,
for the tree bears its fruit, the fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength.
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Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God:
for He has given you the Former Rain of righteousness,
and He will cause to come down for you the Rain,
the Former Rain, and the Latter Rain in the first month.
24 And the threshing-floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
25 I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the canker-worm,
and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm,
My great army which I sent among you.
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And ye shall freely eat, and be satisfied, and praise the Name of the LORD your God,
that has dealt wondrously with you: and My people shall never be ashamed.
27 And ye shall know that I AM in the middle of Israel, and that I AM the LORD your God,
and none else: and My people shall never be ashamed.
28 And it shall come to pass in the Last Days, says GOD,
I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions, and your elders shall dream dreams. Act 2:17
29 And yet on My servants, and on My female servants,
I will, in those days, pour out of My Spirit; and they shall prophesy: Act 2:18
30 I will show wonders in the Heaven above, and signs on the Earth beneath; blood,
and fire, and vapour of smoke. Act 2:19
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before that great and notable Day of the LORD shall to Come. Act 2:20
32 And it shall come to pass, that whoever may call on the Name of the LORD, shall be saved: Act 2:21 Rom 10:13
for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said,
and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
1 For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 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 divided My land.
3 And they have cast lots for My people; and have given a boy for a whore,
and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
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Yes, and what have ye to do with Me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia?
Will ye render Me a recompense?
And if ye recompense Me,
swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense,
upon your own head;
5 because ye have taken My silver and My gold,
and have carried into your temples My goodly pleasant things.
6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold to the Greeks,
that ye might remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place where ye have sold them,
and will return your recompense upon your own head:
8 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 has spoken.
9 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.
10 Beat your plough-shares into swords,
and your pruning-hooks into pikes:
let the weak say, I am strong.
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen,
and gather yourselves together around:
there cause Thy mighty to come down, LORD.
12 Let the heathen be awakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat:
for there will I sit to judge[shaphat] all the heathen on every side.
13 Put ye in the sickle, for the Harvest is ripe: come, Mar 4:29
go down; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
16 The LORD also will 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.
17 So shall ye know that I AM the LORD your God dwelling in Zion,
My Holy Mount: then shall Jerusalem be Holy,
and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
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And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters,
and a fountain shall come forth from the House of the LORD,
and shall water the valley of Shittim.
19 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.
20 But Judah shall dwell forever,
and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwells in Zion.