Joe 1 | EngLXX | STEP | The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Bathuel.

‏ Joel 1

1 The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Bathuel. 2 Hear thesewords, you⌃ elders, and hearken all you⌃ that inhabit the land. Have such things happen inyour days, or in the days of your fathers? 3 Tell your children concerning them, andlet your childrentell their children, and their children another generation. 4 The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust hasthe palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten. 5 Awake, you⌃ drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all you⌃ that drink wine to drunkenness:for joy and gladness and removed are from your mouth. 6 For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion'steeth, and their back teeth those of alion's whelp. 7 He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searchedmy vine, and cast it down; he has peeled its branches. 8 Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9 The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, you⌃priests that serve at the altar of the Lord. 10 For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is driedup, the oil becomes scarce; 11 the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley;for the harvest has perished from off the field. 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 have abolished joy. 13 Gird yourselveswith sackcloth, and lament, you⌃ priests: mourn, you⌃ that serve at the altar: go in, sleepin sackcloths, you⌃ that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from thehouse of your God. 14 Sanctify a fast, proclaim asolemn service, gather the eldersand all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord, 15 Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as troubleupon trouble. 16 Your meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of yourGod. 17 The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine pressesare broken down; for the corn is withered. 18 What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because theyhad no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed. 19 To you, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness,and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field. 20 And the cattle of the field have looked up to you: for the fountains of waters have beendried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.