Joel:1:2-12

bes@Joel:1:2 @ Hear these words, ye elders, and hearken all ye that inhabit the land. (note:)Gr. if(:note) Have such things happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

bes@Joel:1:3 @ Tell your children concerning them, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

bes@Joel:1:4 @ The leavings of the (note:)It is difficult to assign the exact meaning in the Greek.(:note) 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.

bes@Joel:1:5 @ Awake, ye drunkards, from (note:)Gr. their(:note) your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and are removed from your mouth.

bes@Joel:1:6 @ 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.

bes@Joel:1:7 @ He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched my vine, and cast it down; he has (note:)Gr. whitened, Ge strkjv@30:37(:note) peeled its branches.

bes@Joel:1:8 @ Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the (note:)i. e. one who married her as a virgin(:note) husband of her youth.

bes@Joel:1:9 @ 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.

bes@Joel:1:10 @ For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;

bes@Joel:1:11 @ the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the (note:)Or, vintage(:note) harvest has perished from off the field.

bes@Joel:1:12 @ 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 (note:)Gr. disfigured, or, disgraced(:note) have abolished joy.

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