Bible Book 29. Joel Complete 1-3, English Standard Version (ESV) Read Along Bible

Joel Joel 1 the word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of bethuel here this you elders give ear all inhabitants of the land has such a thing happened in your days or in the days of your father's tell your children of it and let your children tell their children and their children to another generation what the cutting locust left the swarming locust has eaten what the swarming locust left the hopping locust has eaten at what the hopping locusts left the destroying locust has eaten awakening you drunkards and weeping and well all you drinkers have whined because of the sweet wine for it is cut off from your mouth for a nation has come up against my land powerful and beyond number its teeth are lion's teeth and it has the fangs of a lioness it has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down their branches are made white lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth the grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord the priests mourn the ministers of the Lord the fields are destroyed the ground mourns because the grain is destroyed the wine dries up the oil languishes be ashamed o tillers of the soil wail Oh vine dressers for the wheat and the barley because the harvest of the field has perished the vine dries up the fig tree languishes pomegranate palm and apple all the trees of the field are dried up and gladness dries up from the children of man put on sackcloth and lament Oh priests wail Oh ministers of the altar go in pass the night in sackcloth of ministers of my god because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God consecrate it fast call a solemn assembly gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God and cry out to the Lord alas for the day for the day of the Lord is near and as destruction from the Almighty it comes is not the food cut off before our eyes joy and gladness from the house of our God the seed shrivels under the clods the storehouses are desolate the granaries are torn down because the grain has dried up how the beasts thrown the herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them even the flocks of sheep suffer to you O Lord I call for fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness and flame has burned all the trees of the field in the beasts of the field pant for you because the water Brooks are dried up and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness [Music] you you joël to blow a trumpet in Zion sound an alarm on my holy mountain that all the inhabitants of the land trembled for the day of the Lord is coming it is near a day of darkness and gloom a day of clouds and thick darkness like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people there like has never been before nor will be again after them through the years of all generations fire devours before them and behind them a flame burns the land is like the Garden of Eden before them but behind them a desolate wilderness and nothing escapes them their appearance is like the appearance of horses and like war horses they run them as with the rumbling of chariots they leap on the tops of the mountains like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble like a powerful army drawn up for battle before them peoples are in anguish all faces grow pale like warriors they charge like soldiers they scale the wall they March each on his way they do not swerve from their paths they do not jostle one another each marches in his path they burst through the weapons and are not halted they leap upon the city they run upon the walls and climb up into the houses they entered through the windows like a thief the earthquakes before them the heavens tremble the Sun in the moon are darkened and the stars withdraw their shining the Lord utters his voice before his army for his camp is exceedingly great he who executes his word is powerful but the day of the Lord is great and very awesome who can endure it yet even now declares the Lord returned to me with all your heart with fasting with weeping and with mourning and rend your hearts and not your garments return to the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and he relents over disaster who knows whether he will not turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God blow the trumpet in Zion consecrate a fast call a solemn assembly gather the people consecrate the congregation assemble the elders gather the children even nursing infants that the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber between the vestibule and the altar let the priests the ministers of the Lord weep and say spare your people O Lord and make not your heritage a reproach a byword among the nations why should they say among the peoples where is their God then the Lord became jealous for his land and had pity on his people the Lord answered and said to his people behold I am sending to you grain wine and oil and you will be satisfied and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations I will remove the door that are far from you and drive him into a parched and desolate land his Vanguard into the eastern sea and his rear garden to the western sea a stench and foul smell of him will rise for he has done great things fear not Al and be glad and rejoice so the Lord has done great things fear not you beasts of the field for the pastures of the wilderness are green the tree bears its fruit the fig tree and vine give their full yield be glad o children of Zion and rejoice in the Lord your God for he has given the early rain for your indications he has poured down for you abundant rain the early in the latter rain as before the threshing floors shall be full of grain the vats shall overflow with wine and oil I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten the hopper the destroyer and the cutter my great army which I sent among you you shall eat and plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord your God who has dealt wondrously with you and my people shall never again be put to shame you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am the Lord your God and there is none else and my people shall never again be put to shame and it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh your sons and your daughters shall prophesy your old men shall dream dreams and your young men shall see visions even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my spirit and I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth blood and fire and columns of smoke the Sun shall be turned to darkness had the moon to blood before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes and it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved for in Mount Zion and Jerusalem there shall be those who escape as the Lord has said and among the survivors shall be those who've the Lord calls you joël 3/4 behold in those days and at that time when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat and I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of my people in my heritage Israel because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land and have cast lots for my people and have traded a boy for a prostitute and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it what are you to me Oh tyre and sidon and all the regions of Philistia are you paying me back for something if you are paying me back I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily for you have taken my silver in my gold and have carried my rich treasures into your temples you have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border behold I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them and I will return your payment on your own head I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah and they will sell them to the sabaeans to a nation far away for the Lord has spoken proclaim this among the nations consecrate for war stir up the mighty men let all the men of war draw near let them come up beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into Spears let the weak say I am a warrior hasten and come o you surrounding nations and gather yourselves there bring down your warriors O Lord let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the valley of jehoshaphat for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations but in the sickle for the harvest is ripe go in tread for the winepress is full now that's overflow for their evil is great multitudes multitudes in the valley of decision but the day of the Lord is near the valley of decision the Sun and the moon are darkened and the stars withdraw their shining the Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem and the heavens and the earth quake but the Lord is a refuge to his people a stronghold to the people of Israel so you shall know that I am the Lord your God who dwells in Zion my holy mountain and Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall never again pass through it and in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine and the hills shall flow with milk and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the valley of shittim Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness for the violence done to the people of Judah because they have shed innocent blood in their land but Judah shall be inhabited forever and Jerusalem to all generations I will avenge their blood blood I have not avenged for the Lord dwells in Zion you you

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Published: Wed Apr 17 2019