Bible - King James Version - Old Testament - Book 29 - Joel
Chapter | Verse | Text |
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1 | 1 | The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. |
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, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. |
1 | 4 | 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. |
1 | 5 | Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. |
1 | 6 | 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. |
1 | 7 | 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. |
1 | 8 | Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. |
1 | 9 | The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. |
1 | 10 | The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. |