If you want to accept God's
offer in his Son, say a prayer like this:
Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of Joel
Chapter 1
001:001 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the
son of Pethuel.
001:002 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?
001:003 Tell ye your children of it, and let your
children tell their
children, and
their children another generation.
001:004 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.
001:005 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.
001:006 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.
001:007 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.
001:008 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for
the husband of
her youth.
001:009 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut
off from the
house of the LORD;
the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
001:010 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the
corn is
wasted: the new wine is
dried up, the oil languisheth.
001:011 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.
001:012 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.
001:013 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.
001:014 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly,
gather the elders
and all the
inhabitants of the land into the house of the
LORD
your God, and cry unto the
LORD,
001:015 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at
hand, and as a
destruction from
the Almighty shall it come.
001:016 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea,
joy and gladness
from the house of
our God?
001:017 The seed is rotten under their clods, the
garners are laid
desolate, the
barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
001:018 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are
perplexed,
because they have no
pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep
are
made desolate.
001:019 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath
devoured the
pastures of the
wilderness, and the flame hath burned all
the
trees of the field.
001:020 The beasts 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.
002:001 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm
in my holy
mountain: let all the
inhabitants of the land tremble: for
the
day of the LORD cometh, for it
is nigh at hand;
002:002 A day of darkness 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.
002:003 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a
flame burneth:
the land is as the
garden of Eden before them, and behind
them
a desolate wilderness; yea,
and nothing shall escape them.
002:004 The appearance of them is as the appearance of
horses; and as
horsemen, so shall
they run.
002:005 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of
mountains shall they
leap, like
the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth
the
stubble, as a strong people
set in battle array.
002:006 Before their face the people shall be much
pained: all faces
shall gather
blackness.
002:007 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:
002:008 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.
002:009 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.
002:010 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens
shall tremble:
the sun and the
moon shall be dark, and the stars
shall
withdraw their shining:
002:011 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his
army: for his
camp is very great:
for he is strong that executeth his
word:
for the day of the LORD is
great and very terrible; and who
can abide it?
002:012 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even
to me with
all your heart, and
with fasting, and with weeping, and
with
mourning:
002:013 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and
turn unto the
LORD your God: for
he is gracious and merciful, slow to
anger,
and of great kindness, and
repenteth him of the evil.
002:014 Who 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?
002:015 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call
a solemn
assembly:
002:016 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 closet.
002:017 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep
between the
porch and the altar,
and let them say, Spare thy people,
O
LORD, and give not thine
heritage to reproach, that the
heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say
among
the people, Where is their
God?
002:018 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and
pity his
people.
002:019 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:
002:020 But I will remove far off from you the northern
army, and will
drive him into a
land barren and desolate, with his
face
toward the east sea, and his
hinder part toward the utmost
sea,
and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour
shall
come up, because he hath
done great things.
002:021 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the
LORD will do
great things.
002:022 Be not afraid, ye beasts 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.
002:023 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, 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 rain, the
former
rain, and the latter rain
in the first month.
002:024 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the
vats shall
overflow with wine and
oil.
002:025 And I will restore 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.
002:026 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 ashamed.
002:027 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of
Israel, and that I
am the LORD
your God, and none else: and my people shall
never
be ashamed.
002:028 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will
pour out my
spirit upon all flesh;
and your sons and your daughters
shall
prophesy, your old men shall
dream dreams, your young men
shall
see visions:
002:029 And also upon the servants and upon the
handmaids in those
days will I
pour out my spirit.
002:030 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in
the earth,
blood, and fire, and
pillars of smoke.
002:031 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the
moon into
blood, before the great
and terrible day of the LORD come.
002:032 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall
call on the
name of the LORD shall
be delivered: for in mount Zion and
in
Jerusalem shall be deliverance,
as the LORD hath said, and in
the
remnant whom the LORD shall call.
003:001 For, behold, in those days, and in that time,
when I shall
bring again the
captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
003:002 I will also gather all nations, and will bring
them down into
the valley of
Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there
for
my people and for my heritage
Israel, whom they have scattered
among the nations, and parted my land.
003:003 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.
003:004 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 recompense
me, swiftly and speedily will I
return
your recompence upon your
own head;
003:005 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and
have carried
into your temples my
goodly pleasant things:
003:006 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.
003:007 Behold, I will raise them out of the place
whither ye have
sold them, and
will return your recompence upon your own head:
003:008 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.
003:009 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare
war, wake up the
mighty men, let
all the men of war draw near; let them
come
up:
003:010 Beat your plowshares into swords and your
pruninghooks into
spears: let the
weak say, I am strong.
003:011 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen,
and gather
yourselves together
round about: thither cause thy mighty
ones
to come down, O LORD.
003:012 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the
valley of
Jehoshaphat: for there
will I sit to judge all the
heathen
round about.
003:013 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe:
come, get you
down; for the press
is full, the fats overflow; for
their
wickedness is great.
003:014 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of
decision: for the day
of the LORD
is near in the valley of decision.
003:015 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the
stars shall
withdraw their
shining.
003:016 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter
his voice from
Jerusalem; and the
heavens and the earth shall shake: but
the
LORD will be the hope of his
people, and the strength of the
children of Israel.
003:017 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God
dwelling in Zion,
my holy
mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and
there
shall no strangers pass
through her any more.
003:018 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
mountains
shall drop down new
wine, and the hills shall flow with
milk,
and all the rivers of Judah
shall flow with waters, and a
fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD,
and
shall water the valley of
Shittim.
003:019 Egypt 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.
003:020 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem
from generation
to generation.
003:021 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not
cleansed: for
the LORD dwelleth in
Zion.