Joel
| Author: Joel (1:1).Time of His Ministry: About 800 B.C., probably after the prophet Elisha.Place of His Ministry: The southern kingdom of Judah.Object of His Ministry: The southern kingdom of Judah. |
And give heed, all you inhabitants of the land.Has this ever happened in your days,
Or even in the days of your fathers?Joe 1:3 - Tell your children about it,
And let your children tell their children,And let their children tell the next generation.
And what the swarming locust has left, the licking locust has eaten;And what the licking locust has left, the consuming locust has eaten.
Howl, all you who drink wine,Because of the fresh wine;
For it has been cut off from your mouth.Joe 1:6 - For a
Mighty and without number;Its
And it has the cutting teeth of a lioness.Joe 1:7 - It has made My
And MyIt has stripped it bare and cast it away;bfig tree a heap of splinters.
Its branches are white.Joe 1:8 - Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth
Over the husband of her youth.Joe 1:9 - The
From the house of Jehovah;The priests, the ministers of Jehovah, mourn.
The land mourns,For the grain is a waste;
The new wine is dried up;The fresh oil languishes.
Howl, O vinedressers,For the wheat and for the barley,
Because the harvest of the field has perished.Joe 1:12 - The vine is dried up,
And the fig tree languishes,The pomegranate and the palm and the apple tree—
All the trees of the field are dried up;Indeed gladness has withered away
From the children of men.Joe 1:13 - Gird yourselves and lament, O priests;
Howl, O ministers of the altar.Come, pass the night in
O ministers of my God.For the meal offering and the drink offering
Are held back from the house of your God.Joe 1:14 - Sanctify a
Call a solemn assembly;Gather the elders
And all the inhabitants of the landTo the house of Jehovah your God;
And cry unto Jehovah.Joe 1:15 - Alas for the day!
For theAnd as the destruction from the Almighty it will come.1aday of Jehovah has drawn near,
Cut off before our eyes,Joy and exultation
From the house of our God?Joe 1:17 - The seeds have shriveled
Under theirThe storehouses have been desolated;1clods;
The barns have been torn down;For the grain is dried up.
The herds of cattle are confused,For they have no pasture;
The flocks of sheep also suffer punishment.Joe 1:19 - To You, O Jehovah, I cry out;
ForThe pastures of the wilderness,afire has devoured
And the flame has set ablazeAll the trees of the field.
Cry to You,For the waterways
Are dried up,And fire has devoured
The pastures of the wilderness.
Sound an alarm in My holy mountain;Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
For theFor it draws near:bday of Jehovah comes;
A day of clouds and deep darkness,Like the dawn spread over the mountains—
Acpeople great and mighty.
Since eternity,And there will not be any more after them,
Even until the years of the generation of the generations.Joe 2:3 - A
And after them a flame blazes.Before them the land is like the garden of
After them, like a desolateAnd indeed no one escapes them.cwilderness;
And as horsemen, so they run.Joe 2:5 - Like the
Upon the mountaintops they leap,Like the sound of a flame of fire
That devours the stubble,Like a mighty people
Set in battle array.Joe 2:6 -
All faces became pale.Joe 2:7 - They run like mighty men;
Like men of battle they climb the wall.And they march, each in his ways,
And do not break their ranks.Joe 2:8 - Nor do they crowd each other;
They march, each on his highway.Though they fall among weapons,
They do not break off their progress.Joe 2:9 - They rush at the city;
They run against the wall;They go up into the houses;
In through the windowsThey go, like a thief.
The heavens shake;The
And the stars withdraw their shining.Joe 2:11 - And Jehovah utters His voice
Before His army,For His camp is very great,
For He who executes His word is mighty.For the
And very terrible,And who can endure it?
Declares Jehovah,
And with fasting and weeping and mourning;Joe 2:13 - And rend your
And not yourAnd turn to Jehovah your God,bgarments,
For He is gracious andLong-suffering and abundant in lovingkindnessccompassionate,
And repentant of evil.Joe 2:14 -
And leave a blessing behind Him,A
To Jehovah your God?Joe 2:15 -
Call a2Sanctify abfast;
Sanctify the congregation;Assemble the elders;
Gather the childrenAnd those who suck the breasts;
Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber,And the bride from her canopy.
Weep between the porch and theAnd let them say,baltar,
Look with pity, O Jehovah, upon Your people;And do not give Your inheritance over to reproach,
That the nations should rule over them.
Where is their God?Joe 2:18 - Then Jehovah became jealous for
And He spared His people.Joe 2:19 - And Jehovah answered and said to His people,
I am about to send youThe
And you will be satisfied with it;And I will no longer make you
A reproach among the nations,Joe 2:20 - But the
I will remove far from you;And I will drive it into a land
Barren and desolate,With its face toward the eastern sea
And its end toward the western sea.And its
And its foul smell will go up,For it has done great things.
Be glad and rejoice,For Jehovah has done great things.
For the pastures of the wilderness turn green.For the tree bears its fruit;
The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.Joe 2:23 - O children of Zion,
Be glad and rejoiceIn Jehovah your God.
For He gives youThe
And He makes the rain come down for you:The
At the beginning of the season.Joe 2:24 - And the threshing floors will be full of grain,
And the wine vats will overflow with new wine and fresh oil.Joe 2:25 - And I will restore to you the years
That the swarmingThe licking locust and the consuming locust and the cutting locust,alocust has eaten,
My great armyThat I sent among you.
And you will praise the name of Jehovah your God,Who has dealt wondrously with you;
And My people will never be ashamed.Joe 2:27 - And you will know that I am in the
And that I am Jehovah yourAnd My people will never be ashamed.bGod and there is none else.
And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy;Your old men shall dream dreams;
Your young men shall see visions.Joe 2:29 - Indeed even upon the male and female slaves
In those days I will pour out MyJoe 2:30 - And I willaSpirit.
Blood andJoe 2:31 - Thebfire and pillars ofcsmoke.
And the moon into blood,Before the great and terrible
Joe 2:32 - And everyone who1bDay of Jehovah comes.
For in MountAs Jehovah has said,bZion and in Jerusalem will be an escape,
Even for theWhom Jehovahcremnant
When IJoe 3:2 - I willaturn the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
And will bring them down to theAnd I will enter intobvalley of2Jehoshaphat;
Because of My people and My inheritance Israel,Whom they have scattered among the nations.
And they have divided My landJoe 3:3 - And have cast lots for My people;
And they have given a boy for a prostituteAnd sold a girl for wine to drink.
And all the regions of Philistia?Will you repay Me with a recompense?
But if you recompense Me,Swiftly, speedily,
I will return your recompense upon your own head.Joe 3:5 - In that you have taken My silver and My gold,
And have brought My fine precious things into your temples,Joe 3:6 - And have sold to the children of the
The children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem,In order to remove them
Far from their borders;Joe 3:7 - I will rouse them out of the place
To which you have sold them,And will return your recompense upon your own head.
Into the hand of the children of Judah,And they will sell them to the Sabeans,
To a nation that is far off,For Jehovah has spoken.
Prepare the battle;
Let all the men of battleDraw near; let them go up.
And your pruning knives into spears;Let the weak say,
I am mighty.Joe 3:11 - Hurry and come,
All you surrounding nations,And be gathered.
There cause YourJoe 3:12 - Let the nations rouse themselves and come up1mighty ones toadescend, O Jehovah!
To theFor there I will sit to judgeavalley of Jehoshaphat.
All the surroundingJoe 3:13 - Send forth thebnations.
For the harvest is ripe;Come, tread,
For theThe wine vats overflow,bwinepress is full;
For their evil is great.Joe 3:14 - Multitudes, multitudes,
In the valley of decision;For the
In the valley of decision.Joe 3:15 - The
And the stars withdraw their shining.Joe 3:16 -
And from Jerusalem He will utter His voice,And the heavens and the earth will shake.
But Jehovah will be aAnd a1bshelter to His people
And Jerusalem will be holy,aDwelling in Zion, Mybholy mountain.
And strangers will pass through her no longer.Joe 3:18 - And in that day
And the hills will1The mountains will drop downafresh wine,
And all the waterways of JudahWill flow with water,
And aAnd it will water the valley of Shittim.2cfountain will go forth from the house of Jehovah,
AndBecause of the violence against the children of Judah,bEdom will be a desolate wilderness,
In that they have shed innocent blood in their land.Joe 3:20 - But Judah will abide forever,
And Jerusalem, from generation to generation;Joe 3:21 - And I will acquit them of their bloodshed that I had not acquitted them of,
For JehovahBook of Joeladwells in Zion.