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I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
5
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
6
His
branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
7
They
that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive
as
the corn, and grow as the vine: the
scent thereof
shall be
as the wine of Lebanon.
8
Ephraim
shall say,
What have I to do any more
with idols? I have heard
him,
and observed him: I
am
like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit
found.
9
Who
is
wise, and he shall understand these
things?
prudent, and he shall know them? for
the ways of the L
ORD
are
right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall
therein.
Joel
CHAPTER 1
The word of the L
ORD
that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
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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?
3
Tell
ye your children of it, and
let
your children
tell
their children, and their children another generation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
8
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9
The meat offering
and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the L
ORD
; the priests, the L
ORD
’S ministers,
mourn.
10
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up,
the oil languisheth.
11
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat
and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
12
The vine is dried up, 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: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
13
Gird yourselves, and
lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of
my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
14
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders
and
all the inhabitants of the land
into
the house of the L
ORD
your God, and cry unto the L
ORD
,
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Alas for the day! for the day of the
L
ORD
is
at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
16
Is not the meat cut off
before our eyes,
yea,
joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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The seed is rotten under their
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