1 Chronicles
Bible, King James Version
Joel
Joel.1
[
1] The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of
Pethuel.
[
2] Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants
of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your
fathers?
[
3] Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell
their children, and their children another generation.
[
4] That which
the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath
left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the
caterpiller eaten.
[
5] Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye
drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your
mouth.
[
6] For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without
number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a
great lion.
[
7] He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he
hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made
white.
[
8] Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband
of her youth.
[
9] The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off
from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers,
mourn.
[
10] The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is
wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
[
11] Be ye
ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the
barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
[
12] The vine is
dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree
also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because
joy is withered away from the sons of men.
[
13] Gird yourselves, and
lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in
sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering
is withholden from the house of your God.
[
14] Sanctify ye a fast,
call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land
into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
[
15] Alas
for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the
Almighty shall it come.
[
16] Is not the meat cut off before our eyes,
yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
[
17] The seed is
rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken
down; for the corn is withered.
[
18] How do the beasts groan! the
herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of
sheep are made desolate.
[
19] O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire
hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the
trees of the field.
[
20] The beasts of the field cry also unto thee:
for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures
of the wilderness.
Joel.2
[
1] Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my
holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the
LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
[
2] A day of darkness and of
gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon
the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like,
neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many
generations.
[
3] A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame
burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a
desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
[
4] The
appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall
they run.
[
5] Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains
shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble,
as a strong people set in battle array.
[
6] Before their face the
people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
[
7]
They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and
they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their
ranks:
[
8] Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one
in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be
wounded.
[
9] They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run
upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the
windows like a thief.
[
10] The earth shall quake before them; the
heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall
withdraw their shining:
[
11] And the LORD shall utter his voice before
his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word:
for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide
it?
[
12] Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with
all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with
mourning:
[
13] And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn
unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of
great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
[
14] Who knoweth if he
will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering
and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
[
15] Blow the trumpet in
Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
[
16] Gather the people,
sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those
that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride
out of her closet.
[
17] Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD,
weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O
LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over
them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their
God?
[
18] Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his
people.
[
19] Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people,
Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied
therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the
heathen:
[
20] But I will remove far off from you the northern army,
and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the
east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come
up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great
things.
[
21] Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will
do great things.
[
22] Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the
pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig
tree and the vine do yield their strength.
[
23] Be glad then, ye
children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the
former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the
former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
[
24] And the
floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and
oil.
[
25] And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath
eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army
which I sent among you.
[
26] And ye shall eat in plenty, and be
satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously
with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
[
27] And ye shall know
that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none
else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
[
28] And it shall come to
pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and
your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men
shall see visions:
[
29] And also upon the servants and upon the
handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
[
30] And I will
shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of
smoke.
[
31] The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into
blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
[
32]
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD
shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as
the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Joel.3
[
1] For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I
shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
[
2] I will
also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of
Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage
Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my
land.
[
3] And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy
for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
[
4]
Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of
Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompence me, swiftly and
speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
[
5] Because
ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my
goodly pleasant things:
[
6] The children also of Judah and the
children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them
far from their border.
[
7] Behold, I will raise them out of the place
whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own
head:
[
8] And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand
of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people
far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
[
9] Proclaim ye this among the
Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near;
let them come up:
[
10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your
pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
[
11] Assemble
yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round
about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
[
12] Let
the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will
I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
[
13] Put ye in the sickle,
for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats
overflow; for their wickedness is great.
[
14] Multitudes, multitudes
in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of
decision.
[
15] The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars
shall withdraw their shining.
[
16] The LORD also shall roar out of
Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall
shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the
children of Israel.
[
17] So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God
dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there
shall no strangers pass through her any more.
[
18] And it shall come
to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills
shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a
fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley
of Shittim.
[
19] Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a
desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because
they have shed innocent blood in their land.
[
20] But Judah shall
dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
[
21] For
I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in
Zion.
