Joel - Verse by Verse

[sarahelizabeth]

Joel 1:16
Do you see how our food has been taken from us? Has not happiness and joy been cut off from the house of our God

 

[sarahelizabeth]

Joel 1:17
The seeds dry up under the ground. The store-houses are laid waste. The buildings where the grain was kept are torn down, for the grain is destroyed.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

Joel 1:17
The seeds dry up under the ground. The store-houses are laid waste. The buildings where the grain was kept are torn down, for the grain is destroyed.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

Joel 1:18
How the animals cry inside themselves! The cattle go from place to place because there is no food for them. Even the flocks of sheep suffer.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

Joel 1:19
I cry to You, O Lord. For fire has destroyed the fields of the desert. All the trees of the field have burned up.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

Joel 1:20
Even the animals of the field cry to You. For the rivers are dried up, and fire has burned up the fields of the desert

 

[EdwinWillers]

Joel 2:1 Blow a trumpet in Zion,
And sound an alarm on My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
For the day of the Lord is coming;
Surely it is near,

 

[EdwinWillers]

Joel 2:2 A day of darkness and gloom,
A day of clouds and thick darkness.
As the dawn is spread over the mountains,
So there is a great and mighty people;
There has never been anything like it,
Nor will there be again after it
To the years of many generations.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Joel 2:3 A fire consumes before them
And behind them a flame burns.
The land is like the garden of Eden before them
But a desolate wilderness behind them,
And nothing at all escapes them.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Joel 2:4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses;
And like war horses, so they run.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Joel 2:5 With a noise as of chariots
They leap on the tops of the mountains,
Like the crackling of a flame of fire consuming the stubble,
Like a mighty people arranged for battle.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Joel 2:6 Before them the people are in anguish;
All faces turn pale.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Joel 2:7 They run like mighty men,
They climb the wall like soldiers;
And they each march in line,
Nor do they deviate from their paths.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Joel 2:8 They do not crowd each other,
They march everyone in his path;
When they burst through the defenses,
They do not break ranks.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Joel 2:9 They rush on the city,
They run on the wall;
They climb into the houses,
They enter through the windows like a thief.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Joel 2:10 Before them the earth quakes,
The heavens tremble,
The sun and the moon grow dark
And the stars lose their brightness.