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1611 King James Bible

Joel 1

  1. Joel 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Ioel the sonne of Pethuel.
  2. Joel 1:2 Heare this, yee olde men, and giue eare, all yee inhabitants of the lande: Hath this been in your dayes, or euen in the dayes of your fathers?
  3. Joel 1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
  4. Joel 1:4 That which the palmer worme hath left, hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left, hath the canker-worme eaten; and that which the canker-worme hath left, hath the caterpillar eaten.
  5. Joel 1:5 Awake ye drunkards, and weepe, and howle all yee drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
  6. Joel 1:6 For a nation is come vp vpon my lande, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lyon, and he hath the cheeke-teeth of a great lyon.
  7. Joel 1:7 He hath laide my vine waste: and barked my figge-tree: hee hath made it cleane bare, and cast it away, the branches thereof are made white.
  8. Joel 1:8 ¶ Lament like a virgine girded with sackecloth for the husband of her youth.
  9. Joel 1:9 The meate offring and the drinke offering is cut off from the house of the LORD, the Priestes the LORDS ministers mourne.
  10. Joel 1:10 The field is wasted, the lande mourneth; for the corne is wasted: the new wine is dried vp, the oyle languisheth.
  11. Joel 1:11 Be yee ashamed, O yee husbandmen: howle, O yee vine-dressers, for the wheate and for the barley; because the haruest of the field is perished.
  12. Joel 1:12 The vine is dried vp, and the figgetree languisheth, the pomegranate tree, the palme tree also and the apple tree, euen all the trees of the field are withered: because ioy is withered away from the sonnes of men.
  13. Joel 1:13 Gird your selues, and lament, yee Priests: howle, ye ministers of the Altar: come, lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drinke offering is withholden from the house of your God.
  14. Joel 1:14 ¶ Sanctifie yee a fast: call a solemne assembly: gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry vnto the LORD:
  15. Joel 1:15 Alas for the day: for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almightie shall it come.
  16. Joel 1:16 Is not the meate cut off before your eyes, yea ioy and gladnesse from the house of our God?
  17. Joel 1:17 The seede is rotten vnder their clods: the garners are laide desolate: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered.
  18. Joel 1:18 How doe the beastes grone? the heards of cattell are perplexed, because they haue no pasture, yea the flockes of sheepe are made desolate.
  19. Joel 1:19 O LORD, to thee will I crie: for the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernesse, and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the field.
  20. Joel 1:20 The beasts of the field crie also vnto thee: for the riuers of waters are dried vp, and the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernesse.