Joel:1:2-12
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Hear these words ,
ye elders ,
and hearken all ye that inhabit the land . (
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Gr .
if (:
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Have such things happened in your days ,
or in the days of your fathers ?
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Tell your children concerning them ,
and let your children tell their children ,
and their children another generation .
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The leavings of the (
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It is difficult to assign the exact meaning in the Greek .(:
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caterpillar has the locust eaten ,
and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten ,
and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten .
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Awake ,
ye drunkards ,
from (
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Gr .
their (:
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your wine ,
and weep :
mourn ,
all ye that drink wine to drunkenness :
for joy and gladness and are removed from your mouth .
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For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land ,
their teeth are lion ’
s teeth ,
and their back teeth those of a lion ’
s whelp .
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He has ruined my vine ,
and utterly broken my fig-trees :
he has utterly searched my vine ,
and cast it down ;
he has (
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Gr .
whitened ,
Ge strkjv @
30:37 (:
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peeled its branches .
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Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the (
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i .
e .
one who married her as a virgin (:
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husband of her youth .
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The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord :
mourn ,
ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord .
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For the plains languish :
let the land mourn ,
for the corn languishes ;
the wine is dried up ,
the oil becomes scarce ;
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the husbandmen are consumed :
mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley ;
for the (
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Or ,
vintage (:
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harvest has perished from off the field .
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The vine is dried up ,
and the fig-trees are become few ;
the pomegranate ,
and palm-tree ,
and apple ,
and all trees of the field are dried up :
for the sons of men have (
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Gr .
disfigured ,
or ,
disgraced (:
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have abolished joy .
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