wbs Joel:1:2-12
wbs@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?
wbs@Joel:1:3 @ Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
wbs@Joel:1:4 @ That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
wbs@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.
wbs@Joel:1:6 @ 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.
wbs@Joel:1:7 @ He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; its branches are made white.
wbs@Joel:1:8 @ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
wbs@Joel:1:9 @ The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
wbs@Joel:1:10 @ The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted; the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
wbs@Joel:1:11 @ Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field hath perished.
wbs@Joel:1:12 @ 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.