The Book of Joel! verse by verse...

[kerrylee]

Joel 1:1
GOD's Message to Joel son of Pethuel:

 

[worldwatcher]

Joel 1:2
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

 

[barb754]

Joel 1:3 (KJV)
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

 

[doc329]

Joel 1:4 (KJV) 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 caterpiller eaten.

 

[kerrylee]

Joel 1:5
Sober up, you drunks! Get in touch with reality--and weep! Your supply of booze is cut off. You're on the wagon, like it or not.

 

[doc329]

Joel 1:6 (KJV)
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

 

[barb754]

Joel 1:7 (KJV)
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.

 

[doc329]

Joel 1:8 (KJV) Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

 

[Glenda]

Joel 1:9 The food offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

 

[doc329]

Joel 1:10 (KJV) The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

 

[worldwatcher]

Joel 1:11
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

 

[Glenda]

JoeL 1:12 The vine is dried up and the fig tree droops, the pomegranate, and the palm tree, and the apple tree; all the trees of the field are dried up, because joy has dried up from the sons of men.

 

[doc329]

Joel 1:13 (KJV) 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 meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

 

[Glenda]

Joel 1:14 Set apart a fast; call a solemn assembly; gather the elders, all those living in the land, into the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah.

 

[doc329]

Joel 1:15 (KJV) Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

 

[Glenda]

Joel 1:16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

 

[doc329]

Joel 1:17 (KJV) The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

 

[Glenda]

JoeL 1:18 How the beasts groan! The herds of livestock are vexed, for there is no pasture for them. Even the flocks of sheep are perishing.

 

[doc329]

Joel 1:19 (KJV) O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

 

[Glenda]

Joel 1:20 The beasts of the field also long for You, for the rivers of water are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.