1The worde of the Lord that came to Ioel the sonne of Pethuel.

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

2Heare ye this, O Elders, and hearken ye all inhabitantes of the land, whether such a thing hath bene in your dayes, or yet in the dayes of your fathers.

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

3Tell you your children of it, and let your children shew to 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 is left of ye palmer worme, hath the grashopper eaten, and the residue of ye grashopper hath the canker worme eaten, and the residue of the canker worme hath the caterpiller eaten.

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

5Awake ye drunkards, and weepe, and howle all ye drinkers of wine, because of the newe wine: for it shalbe pulled from your mouth.

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

6Yea, a nation commeth vpon my lande, mightie, and without nomber, whose teeth are like the teeth of a lyon, and he hath the iawes of a great lyon.

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

7He maketh my vine waste, and pilleth off the barke of my figge tree: he maketh it bare, and casteth it downe: ye branches therof are made white.

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

8Mourne like a virgine 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

9The meate offring, and the drinke offring is cut off from the House of the Lord: the Priests the Lords ministers mourne.

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

10The fielde is wasted: the lande mourneth: for the corne is destroyed: the new wine is dried vp, and the oyle is decayed.

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

11Be ye ashamed, O husband men: howle, O ye vine dressers for the wheate, and for the barly, because the haruest of the fielde is perished.

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

12The vine is dried vp, and the figge tree is decayed: the pomegranate tree and the palme tree, and the apple tree, euen all the trees of the fielde are withered: surely the ioy is withered away from the sonnes of men.

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

13Girde your selues and lament, ye Priests: howle ye ministers of the altar: come, and lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meate offring, and the drinke offring is taken away 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

14Sanctifie you a fast: call a solemne assemblie: gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the House of the Lord your God, and cry vnto the Lord,

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

15Alas: for the day, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and it commeth as a destruction from the Almightie.

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

16Is not the meate cut off before our eyes? and ioy, and gladnesse 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 seede is rotten vnder their cloddes: the garners are destroyed: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered.

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

18How did the beasts mourne! the herdes of cattel pine away, because they haue no pasture, and the flockes of sheepe are destroyed.

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

19O Lord, to thee will I crie: for the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernesse, and the flame hath burnt vp all the trees of the fielde.

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

20The beasts of the fielde cry also vnto thee: for the riuers of waters are dried vp, and the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernes.

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