dby@Joel:1:2 @ 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?
dby@Joel:1:3 @ Tell your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation:
dby@Joel:1:4 @ that which the palmer-worm 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 caterpillar eaten.
dby@Joel:1:5 @ 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.
dby@Joel:1:6 @ For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number: his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a lioness.
dby@Joel:1:7 @ He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white.
dby@Joel:1:8 @ Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
dby@Joel:1:9 @ The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
dby@Joel:1:10 @ The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
dby@Joel:1:11 @ Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.
dby@Joel:1:12 @ The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm also and the apple-tree; all the trees of the field are withered, yea, joy is withered away from the children of men.