1 THE word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
 2 Hear this, ye ^aold men, and give ear, all ye ^binhabitants 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 ^apalmerworm hath left hath the ^blocust 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 ^acut off from your mouth.
 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without ^anumber , whose ^bteeth 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 ^ahusband of her youth.
 9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
 10 The field is wasted, the ^aland mourneth; for the ^bcorn 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 ^ajoy is withered away from the sons of men.
 13 ^aGird 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 ^afast , call a ^bsolemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
 15 Alas for the day! for the ^aday of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
 16 Is not the ^ameat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the ^agarners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
 18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
 19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the ^afire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
 20 The ^abeasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

 1 BLOW ye the ^atrumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy ^bmountain : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the ^cday of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
 2 A day of ^adarkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
 3 A fire ^adevoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of ^bEden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
 5 Like the ^anoise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the ^bstubble , as a strong people set in battle array.
 6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather ^ablackness .
 7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
 8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
 9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
 10 The ^aearth shall quake before them; the heavens shall ^btremble : the ^csun and the moon shall be ^ddark , and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
 11 And the LORD shall utter his ^avoice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the ^bday of the LORD is ^cgreat and very terrible; and who can ^dabide it?
 12 ¶ Therefore also now, saith the LORD, ^aturn ye even to me with all your ^bheart , and with ^cfasting , and with weeping, and with mourning:
 13 And ^arend your heart, and not your garments, ^band turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great ^ckindness , and ^drepenteth him of the evil.
 14 ^aWho knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
 15 ¶ Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a ^asolemn assembly:
 16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her ^acloset .
 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, ^aweep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy ^bpeople , O LORD, and give not thine heritage to ^creproach , that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
 18 ¶ Then will the LORD be ^ajealous for his land, and ^bpity his people.
 19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
 20 But I will ^aremove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the ^beast sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his ^cstink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
 21 ¶ Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
 22 Be not afraid, ye ^abeasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
 23 Be glad then, ye children of ^aZion , and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the ^brain , the former rain, and the ^clatter rain in the first month.
 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the ^afats shall overflow with wine and oil.
 25 And I will ^arestore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
 26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ^aashamed .
 27 And ye shall know that I am in the ^amidst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
 28 ¶ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will ^apour out my ^bspirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall ^cprophesy , your ^dold men shall ^edream dreams, your young men shall see ^fvisions :
 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
 30 And I will shew ^awonders in the ^bheavens and in the earth, blood, and ^cfire , and pillars of smoke.
 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into ^ablood , before the great and the terrible ^bday of the LORD come.
 32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall ^acall on the name of ^bthe LORD shall be ^cdelivered : for in ^dmount ^eZion and in ^fJerusalem shall be ^gdeliverance , as the LORD hath said, and in the ^hremnant whom the LORD shall ⁱcall .

 1 FOR, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall ^abring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
 2 I will also ^agather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will ^bplead with them there for my people and for my ^cheritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
 3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye ^arecompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your ^brecompence upon your own head;
 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
 9 ¶ Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare ^awar , wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am ^astrong .
 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy ^amighty ones to come down, O LORD.
 12 Let the ^aheathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to ^bjudge all the heathen round about.
 13 Put ye in the ^asickle , for the ^bharvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the ^cpress is full, the ^dfats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
 14 Multitudes, ^amultitudes in the valley of decision: for the ^bday of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
 15 The ^asun and the moon shall be ^bdarkened , and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
 16 The ^aLORD also shall ^broar out of ^cZion , and ^dutter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall ^eshake : but the LORD will be the ^fhope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
 17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God ^adwelling in Zion, my holy ^bmountain : then shall ^cJerusalem be holy, and there shall no ^dstrangers pass through her any more.
 18 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the ^amountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a ^bfountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
 19 ^aEgypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
 20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
 21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in ^aZion .