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Passage Lookup: Joel 1
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20 verses
New International Version (1984 Edition)
Joel 1:1
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The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
An Invasion of Locusts
Joel 1:2
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Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your forefathers?
Joel 1:3
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Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
Joel 1:4
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What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts (F1) have eaten.
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Joel 1:5
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Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips.
Joel 1:6
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A nation has invaded my land, powerful and without number; it has the teeth of a lion, the fangs of a lioness.
Joel 1:7
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It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white.
Joel 1:8
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Mourn like a virgin (F2) in sackcloth grieving for the husband (F3) of her youth.
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Joel 1:9
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Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the LORD . The priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD .
Joel 1:10
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The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up (F4) ; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil fails.
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Joel 1:11
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Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
Joel 1:12
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The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree- all the trees of the field-are dried up. Surely the joy of mankind is withered away.
Joel 1:13
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Put on sackcloth, O priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
Joel 1:14
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Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD .
Joel 1:15
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Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty. (F5)
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Joel 1:16
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Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes- joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:17
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The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.
Joel 1:18
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How the cattle moan! The herds mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
Joel 1:19
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To you, O LORD , I call, for fire has devoured the open pastures and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.
Joel 1:20
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Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the open pastures.
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