1The Word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

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

2Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened 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 your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

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

4What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

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

5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the 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 has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

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

7He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

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

8Mourn like a virgin dressed in 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 meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the Lord's house. The priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn.

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

10The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

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

11Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

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

12The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

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

13Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.

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

14Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of the Lord, your God, and cry to 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 will come as destruction from the Almighty.

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

16Isn't the food cut off before our 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 seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

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

18How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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

19The Lord, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

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

20Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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