Joel 1

1Yahweh’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.Cross-references: Jer 1:2 · Ezek 1:3 · Hos 1:1 · Acts 2:16 · 2Pet 1:21

2Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?Cross-references: Deut 4:32 · Job 8:8 · Job 12:12 · Job 15:10 · Job 21:7 · Ps 49:1 · +18 more

3Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.Cross-references: Ex 10:1 · Ex 13:14 · Deut 6:7 · Josh 4:6 · Josh 4:21 · Ps 44:1 · +4 more

4What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.Cross-references: Ex 10:4 · Ex 10:12 · Deut 28:38 · Deut 28:42 · 1Ki 8:37 · 2Chr 6:28 · +11 more

5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.Cross-references: Isa 24:7 · Isa 32:10 · Jer 4:8 · Ezek 30:2 · Joel 1:11 · Joel 1:13 · +7 more

6For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.Cross-references: Ps 107:34 · Prov 30:14 · Prov 30:25 · Isa 8:8 · Isa 32:13 · Hos 9:3 · +3 more

7He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.Cross-references: Ex 10:15 · Ps 105:33 · Isa 5:6 · Isa 24:7 · Jer 8:13 · Hos 2:12 · +3 more

8Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!Cross-references: Prov 2:17 · Isa 22:12 · Isa 24:7 · Isa 32:11 · Jer 3:4 · Jer 9:17 · +6 more

9The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.Cross-references: Ex 28:1 · 2Chr 13:10 · Isa 61:6 · Lam 1:4 · Lam 1:16 · Hos 9:4 · +4 more

10The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.Cross-references: Lev 26:20 · Isa 24:3 · Isa 24:11 · Jer 12:4 · Jer 12:11 · Jer 14:2 · +7 more

11Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.Cross-references: Isa 17:11 · Jer 9:12 · Jer 14:3 · Amos 5:16 · Rom 5:5

12The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered— the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.Cross-references: Num 13:23 · Ps 4:7 · Ps 92:12 · Song 2:3 · Song 4:13 · Song 7:7 · +10 more

13Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.Cross-references: Lev 2:8 · Num 29:6 · 2Sam 12:16 · 1Ki 21:27 · Isa 61:6 · Jer 4:8 · +11 more

14Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.Cross-references: Lev 23:36 · Deut 29:10 · 2Chr 20:3 · 2Chr 20:13 · Neh 8:18 · Neh 9:2 · +2 more

15Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.Cross-references: Ps 37:13 · Isa 13:6 · Jer 30:7 · Ezek 7:2 · Ezek 12:22 · Joel 2:1 · +7 more

16Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?Cross-references: Deut 12:6 · Deut 12:11 · Deut 16:10 · Ps 43:4 · Ps 105:3 · Isa 3:7 · +4 more

17The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.Cross-references: Gen 23:16 · Isa 17:10

18How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:5 · Jer 12:4 · Jer 14:5 · Hos 4:3 · Joel 1:20 · Rom 8:22

19Yahweh, I cry to you, for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.Cross-references: Ps 50:15 · Ps 91:15 · Jer 9:10 · Joel 2:3 · Amos 7:4 · Mic 7:7 · +4 more

20Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:7 · 1Ki 18:5 · Job 38:41 · Ps 104:21 · Ps 145:15 · Ps 147:9