1The word of Jehovah, which 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, ye old men; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land! Hath such a thing happened in your days, Or even 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 your children of it, And let 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

4That which the gnawing-locust left hath the swarming-locust eaten, And that which the swarming-locust left hath the licking-locust eaten, And that which the licking-locust left hath the consuming-locust eaten.

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

5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep! Howl, all ye drinkers of wine, For the new wine, which is snatched from your mouths!

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

6For a nation hath come up on my land, Strong, and not to be numbered; Their teeth are the teeth of the lion; They have the jaw-teeth of the lioness.

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

7They have made my vine a desolation, And my fig-tree a broken branch; They have made it quite 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 ye, like a bride, Clothed 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 flour-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; The priests, the servants of Jehovah 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 ground mourneth, For the corn is laid waste; The new wine is dried up; The oil languisheth.

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

11Lament, O ye husbandmen, Howl, O ye vine-dressers, For the wheat and the barley, For the harvest of the field hath perished!

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

12The vine is dried up, And the fig-tree languisheth; The pomegranate, the palm-tree, and the apple-tree,—All the trees of the field, are withered; Yea, joy is 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

13Gird yourselves with sackcloth and mourn, ye priests! Howl, ye ministers of the altar! Come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God, For the flour-offering and the drink-offering are withholden 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

14Appoint ye a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land Into the house of Jehovah, your God, And cry unto Jehovah!

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

15Alas, alas the day! For the day of Jehovah is near; Even as destruction from the Almighty doth it come.

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

16Is not our food cut off from before our eyes, Yea, 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 are rotten under their clods, The storehouses are laid desolate, the garners are destroyed; For the corn is withered.

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

18How do the beasts groan, How do the herds of oxen wander perplexed, Having no pasture! The flocks of sheep also are destroyed.

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

19To thee, O Jehovah, do I call, For a fire hath devoured the pastures of the desert, And a flame hath 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

20The beasts of the field, also, cry unto thee, For the streams of water are dried up, And a fire hath devoured the pastures of the desert!

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