# Joel 1

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel: [2] 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? [3] Tell it to your children;
let your children tell it to their children,
and their children to the next generation. [4] 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. [5] 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. [6] 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. [7] 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. [8] Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth,
grieving for the husband of her youth. [9] 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. [10] The field is ruined;
the land mourns.
For the grain is destroyed,
the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. [11] Be dismayed, O farmers,
wail, O vinedressers,
over the wheat and barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished. [12] 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. [13] 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. [14] 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. [15] Alas for the day!
For the Day of the LORD is near,
and it will come
as destruction from the Almighty. [16] Has not the food been cut off
before our very eyes—
joy and gladness
from the house of our God? [17] The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods;
the storehouses are in ruins;
the granaries are broken down,
for the grain has withered away. [18] How the cattle groan!
The herds wander in confusion
because they have no pasture.
Even the flocks of sheep are suffering. [19] To You, O LORD, I call,
for fire has consumed the open pastures
and flames have scorched all the trees of the field. [20] Even the beasts of the field pant for You,
for the streams of water have dried up,
and fire has consumed the open pastures.

## Each verse

- Joel 1:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/1
- Joel 1:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/2
- Joel 1:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/3
- Joel 1:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/4
- Joel 1:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/5
- Joel 1:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/6
- Joel 1:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/7
- Joel 1:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/8
- Joel 1:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/9
- Joel 1:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/10
- Joel 1:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/11
- Joel 1:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/12
- Joel 1:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/13
- Joel 1:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/14
- Joel 1:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/15
- Joel 1:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/16
- Joel 1:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/17
- Joel 1:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/18
- Joel 1:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/19
- Joel 1:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/joel/1/20