1The word of the Lord, that came to Joel, the son of Phatuel.

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Acts 2:16, Acts 2:16, Jeremiah 1:2, Jeremiah 1:2, Ezekiel 1:3

2Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

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Joel 2:2, Joel 2:2, Hosea 5:1, Hosea 5:1, Jeremiah 30:7

3Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

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Deuteronomy 6:7, Deuteronomy 6:7, Psalms 145:4, Exodus 13:14, Psalms 71:18

4That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed.

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Joel 2:25, Joel 2:25, Amos 4:9, Amos 4:9, Amos 7:1

5Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.

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James 5:1, James 5:1, Luke 21:34, Luke 21:36, Isaiah 32:10

6For a nation come up upon my land, strong, and without number: his teeth are like the teeth of a lion: and his cheek teeth as of a lion's whelp.

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Joel 2:25, Joel 2:25, Revelation 9:7, Revelation 9:10, Joel 2:2

7He hath laid my vineyard waste, and hath pilled off the bark of my fig tree: he hath stripped it bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

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Amos 4:9, Isaiah 5:6, Amos 4:9, Isaiah 5:6, Joel 1:12

8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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Isaiah 22:12, Isaiah 22:12, Malachi 2:15, Malachi 2:15, Proverbs 2:17

9Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned:

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Joel 2:17, Joel 2:14, Joel 2:17, Joel 2:14, Hosea 9:4

10The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.

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Hosea 4:3, Hosea 4:3, Hosea 9:2, Jeremiah 12:11, Hosea 9:2

11The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.

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Jeremiah 14:3, Jeremiah 14:4, Jeremiah 14:3, Jeremiah 14:4, Isaiah 17:11

12The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men.

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Isaiah 16:10, Isaiah 24:11, Isaiah 16:10, Isaiah 24:11, Joel 1:16

13Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of your God.

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Joel 1:8, Joel 1:9, Jeremiah 4:8, Joel 1:8, Joel 1:9

14Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:

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Joel 2:15, Joel 2:16, Joel 2:15, Joel 2:16, 2 Chronicles 20:3

15Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.

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Isaiah 13:6, Isaiah 13:9, Isaiah 13:6, Isaiah 13:9, Zephaniah 1:14

16Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

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Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:7, Psalms 43:4, Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:7

17The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.

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Genesis 23:16, Isaiah 17:10, Isaiah 17:11, Genesis 23:16, Isaiah 17:10

18Why did the beasts groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished.

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Jeremiah 12:4, Hosea 4:3, Jeremiah 12:4, Hosea 4:3, Jeremiah 14:5

19To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness: and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the country.

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Jeremiah 9:10, Psalms 50:15, Jeremiah 9:10, Psalms 50:15, Amos 7:4

20Yea, and the beasts of the field have looked up to thee, as a garden bed that thirsteth after rain, for the springs of waters are dried up, and fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness.

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Psalms 104:21, Psalms 104:21, 1 Kings 17:7, 1 Kings 17:7, Psalms 145:15