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| 1:1 | The word of the Lord that came to Ioel the sonne of Pethuel. |
| 1:2 | Heare this, yee olde men, and giue eare, all yee inhabitants of the lande: Hath this been in your dayes, or euen in the dayes of your fathers? |
| 1:3 | Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. |
| 1:4 | That which the palmer worme hath left, hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left, hath the canker-worme eaten; and that which the canker-worme hath left, hath the caterpillar eaten. |
| 1:5 | Awake ye drunkards, and weepe, and howle all yee drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. |
| 1:6 | For a nation is come vp vpon my lande, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lyon, and he hath the cheeke-teeth of a great lyon. |
| 1:7 | He hath laide my vine waste: and barked my figge-tree: hee hath made it cleane bare, and cast it away, the branches thereof are made white. |
| 1:8 | Lament like a virgine girded with sackecloth for the husband of her youth. |
| 1:9 | The meate offring and the drinke offering is cut off from the house of the Lord, the Priestes the Lords ministers mourne. |
| 1:10 | The field is wasted, the lande mourneth; for the corne is wasted: the new wine is dried vp, the oyle languisheth. |
| 1:11 | Be yee ashamed, O yee husbandmen: howle, O yee vine-dressers, for the wheate and for the barley; because the haruest of the field is perished. |
| 1:12 | The vine is dried vp, and the figgetree languisheth, the pomegranate tree, the palme tree also and the apple tree, euen all the trees of the field are withered: because ioy is withered away from the sonnes of men. |
| 1:13 | Gird your selues, and lament, yee Priests: howle, ye ministers of the Altar: come, lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drinke offering is withholden from the house of your God. |
| 1:14 | Sanctifie yee a fast: call a solemne assembly: gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry vnto the Lord: |
| 1:15 | Alas for the day: for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almightie shall it come. |
| 1:16 | Is not the meate cut off before your eyes, yea ioy and gladnesse from the house of our God? |
| 1:17 | The seede is rotten vnder their clods: the garners are laide desolate: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered. |
| 1:18 | How doe the beastes grone? the heards of cattell are perplexed, because they haue no pasture, yea the flockes of sheepe are made desolate. |
| 1:19 | O Lord, to thee will I crie: for the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernesse, and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the field. |
| 1:20 | The beasts of the field crie also vnto thee: for the riuers of waters are dried vp, and the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernesse. |
| 1:1 | The worde of the Lord that came to Ioel the sonne of Pethuel. |
| 1:2 | Heare ye this, O Elders, and hearken ye all inhabitantes of the land, whether such a thing hath bene in your dayes, or yet in the dayes of your fathers. |
| 1:3 | Tell you your children of it, and let your children shew to their children, and their children to another generation. |
| 1:4 | That which is left of ye palmer worme, hath the grashopper eaten, and the residue of ye grashopper hath the canker worme eaten, and the residue of the canker worme hath the caterpiller eaten. |
| 1:5 | Awake ye drunkards, and weepe, and howle all ye drinkers of wine, because of the newe wine: for it shalbe pulled from your mouth. |
| 1:6 | Yea, a nation commeth vpon my lande, mightie, and without nomber, whose teeth are like the teeth of a lyon, and he hath the iawes of a great lyon. |
| 1:7 | He maketh my vine waste, and pilleth off the barke of my figge tree: he maketh it bare, and casteth it downe: ye branches therof are made white. |
| 1:8 | Mourne like a virgine girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. |
| 1:9 | The meate offring, and the drinke offring is cut off from the House of the Lord: the Priests the Lords ministers mourne. |
| 1:10 | The fielde is wasted: the lande mourneth: for the corne is destroyed: the new wine is dried vp, and the oyle is decayed. |
| 1:11 | Be ye ashamed, O husband men: howle, O ye vine dressers for the wheate, and for the barly, because the haruest of the fielde is perished. |
| 1:12 | The vine is dried vp, and the figge tree is decayed: the pomegranate tree and the palme tree, and the apple tree, euen all the trees of the fielde are withered: surely the ioy is withered away from the sonnes of men. |
| 1:13 | Girde your selues and lament, ye Priests: howle ye ministers of the altar: come, and lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meate offring, and the drinke offring is taken away from the house of your God. |
| 1:14 | Sanctifie you a fast: call a solemne assemblie: gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the House of the Lord your God, and cry vnto the Lord, |
| 1:15 | Alas: for the day, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and it commeth as a destruction from the Almightie. |
| 1:16 | Is not the meate cut off before our eyes? and ioy, and gladnesse from the house of our God? |
| 1:17 | The seede is rotten vnder their cloddes: the garners are destroyed: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered. |
| 1:18 | How did the beasts mourne! the herdes of cattel pine away, because they haue no pasture, and the flockes of sheepe are destroyed. |
| 1:19 | O Lord, to thee will I crie: for the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernesse, and the flame hath burnt vp all the trees of the fielde. |
| 1:20 | The beasts of the fielde cry also vnto thee: for the riuers of waters are dried vp, and the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernes. |
| 1:1 | Thys is the worde of the Lorde, that came vnto Ioell the sonne of Phatuel. |
| 1:2 | Heare, O yee elders: pondre this well, all ye that dwell in the lande: yf euer there happened soch a thinge in your dayes, or in the dayes of youre fathers. |
| 1:3 | Tell youre chyldren of it, and lett them shewe it vnto their chyldren, and so they to certifye theyr posteryte therof. |
| 1:4 | Loke what the caterpyller hath lefte, that hath the greshoper eaten vp: what the greshoper lefte, that hath the locuste eaten vp: and what the locuste hath left, that hath the blastynge consumed. |
| 1:5 | Wake vp ye dronckardes, and wepe: mourne all ye wynesuppers, because of youre swete wyne, for it shall be taken awaye from youre mouth. |
| 1:6 | Yee, a myghtye and an innumerable people shall come vp into my lande: these haue teeth lyke the teeth of lyons, and chaftbones lyke the lyonesses. |
| 1:7 | They shall make my vyneyarde waste, they shall pyll of the darckes of my fyggetrees, strype them bare, cast them awaye, and make the braunches whyte. |
| 1:8 | Make thy moone as a vyrgin doth that gyrdeth her selfe with sacke, because of her bryde grome. |
| 1:9 | For the meate and drynckoffringe shalbe taken awaye from the house of the Lorde, and the prestes the Lordes minysters shall mourne. |
| 1:10 | The felde shalbe wasted, the lande shalbe in a myserable case: for the corne shalbe destroyed, the swete wyne shall come to confusyon, and the oyle vtterly desolate. |
| 1:11 | The housbandmen and the wyne gardeners shall loke pyteously and make lamentacyon, for the wheate, wyne and barly, and because the haruest vpon the felde is so clene destroyed. |
| 1:12 | The grapegatherers shall make greate mone, when the vyneyarde and fyggetrees be so vtterly wasted. Yee, all the pomgarnettes, palmetrees, apletrees, & the other trees of the felde shall wyther awaye. Thus the mery cheare of the chyldren of men, shall come to confusyon. |
| 1:13 | Gyrde you, and make youre mone, O ye prestes, mourne ye minystres of the aulter: goo your waye in, and slepe in sack cloth, O ye officiers of my God: for the meat & drinkofferinge shall be taken awaye from the house of youre God. |
| 1:14 | Proclayme a fastinge, call the congregacyon, gather the elders and all the inhabitours of the lande together into the house of the Lorde your God, and crye vnto the Lorde: |
| 1:15 | alas, alas for thys daye. And why? the daye of the Lorde is at hande, and cometh as a destroyer from the almyghtye. |
| 1:16 | Shall not the meates be taken awaye before oure eyes, the myrth also and ioye from the house of our God? |
| 1:17 | The sede shall peryshe in the grounde, the garners shall lye waste, the flores shalbe broken downe, for the corne shall be destroyed. |
| 1:18 | O what a syghynge make the kyne? the bullockes are very euell lykynge, because they haue no pasture: and the shepe are famysshed awaye. |
| 1:19 | O Lorde, to the wyll I crye: for the fyre hath consumed the goodly pastures of the wyldernes, and the flame hath brent vp all the trees of the felde. |
| 1:20 | Yee, the wylde beastes crye also vnto the: for the water riuers are dryed vp, and the fyre hath consumed the pastures of the wyldernesse. |
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