1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. ERV — Joel 1:1
2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers? ERV — Joel 1:2
3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. ERV — Joel 1:3
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. ERV — Joel 1:4
5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. ERV — Joel 1:5
6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw teeth of a great lion. ERV — Joel 1:6
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. ERV — Joel 1:7
8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. ERV — Joel 1:8
9 The meal offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. ERV — Joel 1:9
10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. ERV — Joel 1:10
11 Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen, howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished. ERV — Joel 1:11
12 The vine is withered, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men. ERV — Joel 1:12
13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; howl, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. ERV — Joel 1:13
14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD. ERV — Joel 1:14
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come, ERV — Joel 1:15
16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? ERV — Joel 1:16
17 The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. ERV — Joel 1:17
18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. ERV — Joel 1:18
19 O LORD, to thee do I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. ERV — Joel 1:19
20 Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee: for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. ERV — Joel 1:20