1 The word of the Lord that came to Acts 2:16 Joel the son of Pethuel.
2 The Land Laid Waste Hear this, you elders, And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Jer. 30:7; Joel 2:2 Has anything like this happened in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers?
3 Ex. 10:2; Ps. 78:4; Is. 38:19 Tell your children about it, Let your children tell their children, And their children another generation.
4 Deut. 28:38; Joel 2:25; Amos 4:9 What the chewing locust left, the Is. 33:4 swarming locust has eaten; What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten; And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
5 Awake, you Is. 5:11; 28:1; Hos. 7:5 drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you drinkers of wine, Because of the new wine, Is. 32:10 For it has been cut off from your mouth.
6 For Prov. 30:25; Joel 2:2, 11, 25 a nation has come up against My land, Strong, and without number; Rev. 9:8 His teeth are the teeth of a lion, And he has the fangs of a fierce lion.
7 He has Is. 5:6; Amos 4:9 laid waste My vine, And ruined My fig tree; He has stripped it bare and thrown it away; Its branches are made white.
8 Is. 22:12 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth For Prov. 2:17; Jer. 3:4 the husband of her youth.
9 Hos. 9:4; Joel 1:13; 2:14 The grain offering and the drink offering Have been cut off from the house of the Lord ; The priests Joel 2:17 mourn, who minister to the Lord .
10 The field is wasted, Jer. 12:11; Hos. 3:4 The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, Is. 24:7 The new wine is dried up, The oil fails.
11 Jer. 14:3, 4; Amos 5:16 Be ashamed, you farmers, Wail, you vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 Joel 1:10; Hab. 3:17 The vine has dried up, And the fig tree has withered; The pomegranate tree, The palm tree also, And the apple tree— All the trees of the field are withered; Surely Is. 16:10; 24:11; Jer. 48:33 joy has withered away from the sons of men.
13 Mourning for the Land Jer. 4:8; Ezek. 7:18 Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; Wail, you who minister before the altar; Come, lie all night in sackcloth, You who minister to my God; For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.
14 2 Chr. 20:3; Joel 2:15, 16 Consecrate a fast, Call Lev. 23:36 a sacred assembly; Gather the elders And 2 Chr. 20:13 all the inhabitants of the land Into the house of the Lord your God, And cry out to the Lord .
15 (Is. 13:9; Jer. 30:7); Amos 5:16 Alas for the day! For Is. 13:6; Ezek. 7:2–12 the day of the Lord is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
16 Is not the food Is. 3:1; Amos 4:6 cut off before our eyes, Deut. 12:7; Ps. 43:4 Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seed shrivels under the clods, Storehouses are in shambles; Barns are broken down, For the grain has withered.
18 How 1 Kin. 8:5; Jer. 12:4; 14:5, 6; Hos. 4:3 the animals groan! The herds of cattle are restless, Because they have no pasture; Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.
19 O Lord , (Ps. 50:15); Mic. 7:7 to You I cry out; For Jer. 9:10; Amos 7:4 fire has devoured the open pastures, And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
20 The beasts of the field also Job 38:41; Ps. 104:21; 147:9; Joel 1:18 cry out to You, For 1 Kin. 17:7; 18:5 the water brooks are dried up, And fire has devoured the open pastures.