Joel:1

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* The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel . * Hear this , you old men , and give ear , all you inhabitants of the land . Has this been in your days , or even in the days of your fathers ? * Tell you your children of it , and let your children tell their children , and their children another generation . * That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten ; and that which the locust has left has the cankerworm eaten ; and that which the cankerworm has left has the caterpillar eaten . * Awake , you drunkards , and weep ; and howl , all you drinkers of wine , because of the new wine ; for it is cut off from your mouth . * For a nation is come up on my land , strong , and without number , whose teeth are the teeth of a lion , and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion . * He has laid my vine waste , and barked my fig tree : he has made it clean bore , and cast it away ; the branches thereof are made white . * Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth . * The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD ; the priests , the LORD ' ministers , mourn . * The field is wasted , the land mourns ; for the corn is wasted : the new wine is dried up , the oil languishes . * Be you ashamed , O you farmers ; howl , O you vinedressers , for the wheat and for the barley ; because the harvest of the field is perished . * 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 . * Gird yourselves , and lament , you priests : howl , you ministers of the altar : come , lie all night in sackcloth , you ministers of my God : for the meat offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God . * Sanctify you 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 , * Alas for the day ! for the day of the LORD is at hand , and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come . * Is not the meat cut off before our eyes , yes , joy and gladness from the house of our God ? * The seed is rotten under their clods , the garners are laid desolate , the barns are broken down ; for the corn is withered . * How do the beasts groan ! the herds of cattle are perplexed , because they have no pasture ; yes , the flocks of sheep are made desolate . * O LORD , to you will I cry : for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness , and the flame has burned all the trees of the field . * The beasts of the field cry also to you : for the rivers of waters are dried up , and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness .

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