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{\MTB The Book of
\par }{\MT Joel

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
\VS{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?
\VS{3}Tell your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation:
\VS{4}that which the palmer-worm 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 caterpillar eaten.
\VS{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.
\VS{6}For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number: his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a lioness.
\VS{7}He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white.
\VS{8}Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
\VS{9}The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
\VS{10}The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
\VS{11}Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.
\VS{12}The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm also and the apple-tree; all the trees of the field are withered, yea, joy is withered away from the children of men.
\VS{13}Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:13 }Elohim}God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:13 }Elohim}God.
\VS{14}Hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the elders, [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:14 }Elohim}God, and cry unto Jehovah.
\VS{15}Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
\VS{16}Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:16 }Elohim}God?
\VS{17}The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
\VS{18}How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered, for they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep also are in suffering.
\VS{19}To thee, Jehovah, do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned up all the trees of the field.
\VS{20}The beasts of the field also cry unto thee; for the water-courses are dried, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is at hand;
\VS{2}a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; — a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, to the years of generations and generations.
\VS{3}A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth; the land is as a garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness: yea, and nothing escapeth them.
\VS{4}The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so they run.
\VS{5}Like the noise of chariots, on the tops of the mountains, they leap; like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
\VS{6}Before them the peoples are in anguish: all faces turn pale.
\VS{7}They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and break not their ranks.
\VS{8}Neither doth one press upon another; they march every one in his path; and fall amid weapons, but are not wounded.
\VS{9}They spread themselves over the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in by the windows like a thief.
\VS{10}The earth quaketh before them; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
\VS{11}And Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for strong is he that executeth his word: for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can bear it?
\VS{12}Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning;
\VS{13}and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Jehovah your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 2:13 }Elohim}God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
\VS{14}Who knoweth? He might return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, an oblation and a drink-offering for Jehovah your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 2:14 }Elohim}God?
\VS{15}Blow the trumpet in Zion, hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly;
\VS{16}gather the people, hallow the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride from her closet.
\VS{17}Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and give not thine inheritance to reproach, that they should be a byword of the nations. Wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 2:17 }Elohim}God?
\VS{18}Then Jehovah will be jealous for his land, and will have pity on his people.
\VS{19}And Jehovah will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I send you corn, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
\VS{20}And I will remove far off from you him [that cometh] from the north, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, his face toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the hinder sea; and his stench shall come up, and his ill odour shall come up, for he hath exalted himself to do great things.
\VS{21}— Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for Jehovah doeth great things.
\VS{22}Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring; for the tree beareth its fruit; the fig-tree and the vine yield full increase.
\VS{23}And ye, children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Jehovah your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 2:23 }Elohim}God; for he giveth you the early rain in due measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the early rain, and the latter rain at the beginning [of the season].
\VS{24}And the floors shall be full of corn, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
\VS{25}And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.
\VS{26}And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of Jehovah your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 2:26 }Elohim}God, who hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
\VS{27}And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I, Jehovah, [am] your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 2:27 }Elohim}God, and there is none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
\VS{28}And it shall come to pass afterwards [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.
\VS{29}Yea, even upon the bondmen and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit.
\VS{30}And I will shew wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
\VS{31}The sun shall be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come.
\VS{32}And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of Jehovah shall be saved: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as Jehovah hath said, and for the residue whom Jehovah shall call.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall turn again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
\VS{2}I will also gather all the nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people and mine inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land;
\VS{3}and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk [it].
\VS{4}Yea also, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompence? But if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I bring your recompence upon your own head;
\VS{5}because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,
\VS{6}and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.
\VS{7}Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompence upon your own head.
\VS{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 nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken.
\VS{9}Proclaim this among the nations: prepare war, arouse the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.
\VS{10}Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.
\VS{11}Haste ye and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together. Thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.
\VS{12}Let the nations rouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.
\VS{13}Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down, for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
\VS{14}Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is at hand in the valley of decision.
\VS{15}The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
\VS{16}And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: and Jehovah will be a shelter for his people, and the refuge of the children of Israel.
\VS{17}And ye shall know that I, Jehovah, [am] your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 3:17 }Elohim}God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; and Jerusalem shall be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more.
\VS{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 water-courses of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
\VS{19}Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, in that they have shed innocent blood in their land.
\VS{20}But Judah shall abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
\VS{21}And I will purge them from the blood from which I had not purged them: for Jehovah dwelleth in Zion.
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