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The Word of the LORD

that came to

JOEL

the son of Pethuel

JOEL

A RHAPSODY OF THE LOCUST PLAGUE

A RHAPSODY OF THE LOCUST PLAGUE

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The Land Desolate and Mourning

OLD MEN

Hear this, ye old men,

And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land!
Hath this been in your days,

Or in the days of your fathers?
Tell ye your children of it,

And let your children tell their children,
And their children another generation.
That which the palmerworm 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.

REVELLERS

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep,
And howl, all ye drinkers of wine,

Because of the sweet wine;

For it is cut off from your mouth!
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 jaw teeth of a great lion.
He hath laid my vine waste,

And barked my fig tree:

He hath made it clean bare, and cast it

away;

The branches thereof are made white.

PRIESTS

Lament like a virgin

Girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
The meal offering and the drink offering
Is cut off from the house of the LORD:
The priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
The field is wasted,

The land mourneth;
For the corn is wasted,

The new wine is dried up,

The oil languisheth.

HUSBANDMEN

Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen,
Howl, O ye vinedressers,

For the wheat, and for the barley ;

For the harvest of the field is perished!
The wine is withered,

And the fig tree languisheth;

The pomegranate tree,

The palm tree also, and the apple tree,
Even all the trees of the field are withered:
For joy is withered away from the sons of men.

PRIESTS

Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests;
Howl, ye ministers of the altar;

Come, lie all night in sackcloth,
Ye ministers of my God:

For the meal offering and the drink offering
Is withholden from the house of your God!

THE WHOLE PEOPLE

Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD:

Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand!
And as destruction from the Almighty shall it

come.

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes,

Yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

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