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  Joel

  1:1 The huel.

  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?

  1:3 Tell ye your children of it, a your childreheir children, and their children aneion.

  1:4 That en.

  1:5 Ah.

  1:6 For a nation ise up upon my land, strong, andlion.

  1:7 He hath laid my vine e.

  1:8 Lament like a virgin girded h.

  1:9 The meatand the drinkis cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD"s ministers, mourn.

  1:10 The field is h.

  1:11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; hohe field is perished.

  1:12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegraree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are he sons of men.

  1:13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: hohe house of yod.

  1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD yod, and cry unto the LORD,

  1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destru from the Almighty shall ite.

  1:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of od?

  1:17 The seed is rotten uheir clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken dohered.

  1:18 Hoe.

  1:19 O LORD, to thee he field.

  1:20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of he wilderness.

  2:1 Blo hand;

  2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the m spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not beehe like, her shall be any more after it, even to the years of many geions.

  2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame buh: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate hem.

  2:4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.

  2:5 Like the noise of chariots oops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

  2:6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blaess.

  2:7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the heir ranks:

  2:8 her shall ohrust ahey shallbe wounded.

  2:9 They shall run to and fro iy; they shall run upon the hief.

  2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall heir shining:

  2:11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his ?

  2:12 Therefore also noh m:

  2:13 And rend your heart, and not yarments, and turn unto the LORD yod: for he is gracious and merciful, slohe evil.

  2:14 Who knohe LORD yod?

  2:15 Blo, call a solemn assembly:

  2:16 Gather the people, sanctify the gregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

  2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, heir God?

  2:18 Then y his people.

  2:19 Yea, the LORD hen:

  2:20 But I hings.

  2:21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD hings.

  2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the h.

  2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoi the LORD yod: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he h.

  2:24 And the floors shall be full of h wine and oil.

  2:25 And Iamong you.

  2:26 And ye shall eat iy, aisfied, and praise the name of the LORD yod, that hath dealt h you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

  2:27 And ye shall knohe LORD yod, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.

  2:28 And it shalle to pass afterers shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

  2:29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days .

  2:30 And I h, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

  2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORDe.

  2:32 And it shalle to pass, that he LORD shall call.

  3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, y of Judah and Jerusalem,

  3:2 I ed my land.

  3:3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl fordrink.

  3:4 Yea, and urn your rpence upon your own head;

  3:5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

  3:6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Gres, that ye might remove them far from their border.

  3:7 Behold, I urn your rpence upon your own head:

  3:8 And I .

  3:9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare heme up:

  3:10 Beat your pl.

  3:11 Assemble yourselves, ande, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ooe down, O LORD.

  3:12 Let the heathen be .

  3:13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe:e, get you do.

  3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

  3:15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall heir shining.

  3:16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD he children of Israel.

  3:17 So shall ye knh her any more.

  3:18 And it shalle to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop doim.

  3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate heir land.

  3:20 But Judah shall dion.

  3:21 For I h in Zion.