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1The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel:[#Jer 1.2; Ezek 1.3; Hos 1.1; Acts 2.16]
2Hear this, O elders;[#v 14 ; Hos 4.1; 5.1; Joel 2.2]
give ear, all inhabitants of the land!
Has such a thing happened in your days
or in the days of your ancestors?
3Tell your children of it,[#Ps 78.4]
and let your children tell their children,
and their children another generation.
4What the cutting locust left,[#Deut 28.38; Isa 33.4; Joel 2.25; Nah 3.15, 16]
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust left,
the hopping locust has eaten;
and what the hopping locust left,
the destroying locust has eaten.
5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep,
and wail, all you wine drinkers,
over the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
6For a nation has invaded my land,[#Joel 2.2, 11; Rev 9.8]
powerful and innumerable;
its teeth are lions’ teeth,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
7It has laid waste my vines[#Isa 5.6; Am 4.9]
and splintered my fig trees;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
their branches have turned white.
8Lament like a virgin dressed in sackcloth[#v 13 ; Am 8.10]
for the husband of her youth.
9The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off[#Joel 2.14, 17]
from the house of the Lord .
The priests mourn,
the ministers of the Lord .
10The fields are devastated,[#Isa 24.4–7; Hos 9.2]
the ground mourns,
for the grain is destroyed,
the wine dries up,
the oil fails.
11Be dismayed, you farmers;[#Isa 17.11; Jer 9.12; 14.3, 4]
wail, you vinedressers,
over the wheat and the barley,
for the crops of the field are ruined.
12The vine withers;[#Isa 16.10; 24.11; Jer 48.33; Hab 3.17, 18]
the fig tree droops.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple—
all the trees of the field are dried up;
surely, joy withers away
among the people.
13Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests;[#vv 8, 9 ; 1 Kings 21.27; Jer 4.8; Joel 2.17]
wail, you ministers of the altar.
Come, pass the night in sackcloth,
you ministers of my God!
Grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.
14Consecrate a fast;[#v 2 ; 2 Chr 20.3, 4; Joel 2.15, 16; Jon 3.8]
call a solemn assembly.
Gather the elders
and all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
and cry out to the Lord .
15Alas for the day![#Isa 13.6, 9; Jer 30.7; Joel 2.1, 11, 31]
For the day of the Lord is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
16Is not the food cut off[#Deut 12.6, 7; Ps 43.4; Isa 3.7]
before our eyes,
joy and gladness
from the house of our God?
17The seed shrivels under the clods;[#1.17 Meaning of Heb uncertain]
the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are ruined
because the grain has withered.
18How the animals groan![#1 Kings 18.5; Jer 14.5, 6; Hos 4.3]
The herds of cattle wander about
because there is no pasture for them;
even the flocks of sheep are perishing.
19To you, O Lord , I cry,[#Ps 50.15; Jer 9.10; Joel 2.3]
for fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness,
and flames have burned
all the trees of the field.
20Even the wild animals cry to you[#1 Kings 17.7; Job 38.41; Ps 104.21]
because the watercourses are dried up,
and fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.