Verse 1

Joel 1:1

Literal Standard Version

1 A word of YHWH that has been to Joel, son of Pethuel:

Original Language Text

hebrew

דְּבַר יְהוָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָיָ֔ה אֶל יוֹאֵ֖ל בֶּן פְּתוּאֵֽל

English Translation

The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.

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Chapter 1 Context

1 A word of YHWH that has been to Joel, son of Pethuel:

2 Hear this, you aged ones, || And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land, || Has this been in your... Focus ↗

3 Concerning it talk to your sons, || And your sons to their sons, || And their sons to another genera... Focus ↗

4 What is left of the palmer-worm, the locust has eaten, || And what is left of the locust, || The can... Focus ↗

5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep, || And howl all drinking wine, because of the juice, || For it has b... Focus ↗

6 For a nation has come up on My land, || Strong, and there is no number, || Its teeth are the teeth o... Focus ↗

7 It has made My vine become a desolation, || And My fig tree become a splinter, || It has made it tho... Focus ↗

8 Wail, as a virgin girds with sackcloth, || For the husband of her youth. Focus ↗

9 Present and drink-offering have been cut off from the house of YHWH, || The priests have mourned, se... Focus ↗

10 The field is spoiled, || The ground has mourned, || For the grain is spoiled, || New wine has been d... Focus ↗

11 Be ashamed, you farmers, || Howl, vinedressers, for wheat and for barley, || For the harvest of the... Focus ↗

12 The vine has been dried up, || And the fig tree languishes, || Pomegranate, also palm, and apple-tre... Focus ↗

13 Gird, and lament, you priests, || Howl, you servants of the altar, || Come in, lodge in sackcloth, s... Focus ↗

14 Sanctify a fast, proclaim a restraint, || Gather the elderly and all those inhabiting the land, || I... Focus ↗

15 And cry to YHWH, “Aah! For the day! For the Day of YHWH is near, || And it comes as destruction from... Focus ↗

16 Is food not cut off before our eyes? Joy and rejoicing from the house of our God (Elohim)? Focus ↗

17 Scattered things have rotted under their clods, || Storehouses have been desolated, || Granaries hav... Focus ↗

18 How livestock have sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, || For there is no pasture for them,... Focus ↗

19 To You, O YHWH, I call, || For fire has consumed lovely places of a wilderness, || And a flame has s... Focus ↗

20 Also the livestock of the field long for You, || For dried up have been streams of water, || And fir... Focus ↗

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