Joel 1

1The word of the Yahuah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 3Tell ye your children of it, and your children their children, and their children another generation. 4That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust has left has the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left has the caterpiller eaten. 5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion. 7He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bare, and cast away; the branches thereof are made white. 8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Yahuah; the priests, the Yahuah'S ministers, mourn. 10The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. 11Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. 12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. 13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my Elohim: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your Elohim. 14Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders all the inhabitants of the land the house of the Yahuah your Elohim, and cry unto the Yahuah, 15Alas for the day! for the day of the Yahuah at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, , joy and gladness from the house of our Elohim? 17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. 18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. 19O Yahuah, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. 20The beasts of the field cry also unto you: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.