Joel 11JoelThe locusts and the day of the LordThe Orthodox Jewish Bible Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha The Holy Bible

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1. The Invasion of Locusts

2. 1ENGOJBThe Devar Hashem that came to Yoel Ben Petuel:BSBBSB: This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:
3. 2ENGOJBHear this, ye zekenim, and give ear, all ye yoshvei ha'aretz (inhabitants of the land). Hath anything like this been in your days, or even in the days of your avot (fathers)?BSBBSB: Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?
4. 3ENGOJBTell ye your banim (children) of it, and let your banim tell their banim, and their banim to the next generation.BSBBSB: Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
5. 4ENGOJBThat which the locust swarm hath left hath the arbeh (great locust) eaten; and that which the arbeh hath left hath the crawling locust eaten; and that which the crawling locust hath left hath the other locust eaten.BSBBSB: What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
6. 5ENGOJBAwake, ye shikkorim (drunkards), and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of yayin, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.BSBBSB: Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
7. 6ENGOJBFor a Goy is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of an aryeh (lion), and he hath the fangs of a lioness.BSBBSB: For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.
8. 7ENGOJBHe hath laid my gefen (vine) waste, and barked my teenah (fig tree); he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.BSBBSB: It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

9. A Call to Mourning

10. 8ENGOJBLament like a betulah girded with sackcloth for the ba'al (husband) of her youth.BSBBSB: Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
11. 9ENGOJBThe minchah and the nesekh is cut off from the Beis Hashem; the kohanim, the mesharetim (ministers) of Hashem, mourn.BSBBSB: Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
12. 10ENGOJBThe sadeh (field) is wasted, the adamah (land) mourneth; for the grain is wasted; the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.BSBBSB: The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
13. 11ENGOJBBe ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the katzir (harvest) of the sadeh is perished.BSBBSB: Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
14. 12ENGOJBThe gefen is dried up, and the teenah languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the sadeh, are withered; because sasson (joy) is withered away from the bnei Adam.BSBBSB: The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.

15. A Call to Repentance

    (Amos 5:4–15; Zephaniah 2:1–3; Luke 13:1–5)

16. 13ENGOJBGird yourselves, and lament, ye kohanim; howl, ye mesharetim of the Mizbe'ach; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye mesharetim of my G-d; for the minchah and the nesekh is withheld from the Beis of your G-d.BSBBSB: Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
17. 14ENGOJBSanctify ye a tzom (fast), call an atzarah (solemn assembly), gather the zekenim and all the yoshvei ha'aretz into the Beis Hashem Eloheichem, and cry unto Hashem.BSBBSB: Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
18. 15ENGOJBAlas for the day! For the Yom Hashem is karov (near, at hand), and like destruction from Shaddai shall it come.BSBBSB: Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
19. 16ENGOJBIs not the okhel (food) cut off before our eyes, yea, simchah (joy) and gladness from the Beis Eloheinu?BSBBSB: Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?
20. 17ENGOJBThe seed is rotten under their clods, the otzarot (storehouses) are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.BSBBSB: The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.
21. 18ENGOJBHow do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the edrei hatzon (flocks of sheep) are made desolate.BSBBSB: How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
22. 19ENGOJBTo Thee, Hashem, will I cry; for the eish hath devoured the pastures of the midbar, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.BSBBSB: To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.
23. 20ENGOJBThe beasts of the field cry also unto Thee; for the rivers of mayim (water) are dried up, and the eish hath devoured the pastures of the midbar.BSBBSB: Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.