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\v 1 This is the word of Yahweh that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
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\v 2 Hear this, you elders,
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\q and listen, all you inhabitants of the land.
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\q Has this ever before happened in your days
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\q or in the days of your ancestors?
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\q
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\v 3 Tell your children about it,
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\q and let your children tell their children,
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\q and their children the next generation.
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\v 4 What the swarming locust has left the great locust has eaten;
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\q what the great locust has left the grasshopper has eaten;
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\q and what the grasshopper has left the caterpillar has eaten.
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\q
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\v 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
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\q Wail, all you drinkers of wine,
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\q because the sweet wine has been cut off from you.
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\q
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\v 6 For a nation has come up upon my land,
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\q strong and without number.
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\q His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
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\q and he has the teeth of a lioness.
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\q
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\v 7 He has made my vineyard into a terrifying place
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\q and has stripped my fig tree bare.
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\q He has stripped its bark and thrown it away;
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\q the branches are bare white.
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\v 8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the death of her young husband.
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\v 9 The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from Yahweh's house.
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\q The priests, Yahweh's servants, mourn.
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\q
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\v 10 The fields are ruined,
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\q the ground is mourning because the grain has been destroyed.
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\q The new wine has dried up,
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\q the oil fails.
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\v 11 Be ashamed, you farmers,
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\q and wail, you vine growers,
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\q for the wheat and the barley.
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\q For the harvest of the fields has perished.
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\v 12 The vines have withered and the fig trees have dried up,
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\q the pomegranate trees, also the palm trees, and the apple trees—
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\q all the trees of the field have withered.
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\q For joy has withered away from the descendants of mankind.
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\v 13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests!
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\q Wail, you servants of the altar.
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\q Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you servants of my God.
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\q For the grain offering and the drink offering have been withheld from the house of your God.
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\q
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\v 14 Call for a holy fast,
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\q and call a holy assembly.
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\q Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land
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\q to the house of Yahweh your God,
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\q and cry to Yahweh.
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\v 15 Alas for the day!
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\q For the day of Yahweh is almost here.
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\q With it will come destruction from the Almighty.
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\v 16 Has not food been cut off from before our eyes,
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\q and joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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\v 17 The seeds rot under their clods,
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\q the granaries are desolate,
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\q and the barns have been broken down,
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\q for the grain has withered.
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\v 18 How the animals groan!
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\q The herds of cattle are suffering
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\q because they have no pasture.
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\q Also, the flocks of sheep suffer.
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\v 19 Yahweh, I cry to you.
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\q For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
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\q and flames have burned all the trees of the fields.
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\q
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\v 20 Even the animals of the fields pant for you,
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\q for the water brooks have dried up,
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\q and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
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