Bible (Jewish Publication Society 1917)/Joel
יואל
JOEL
1The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
- 2Hear this, ye old men,
- And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.
- Hath this been in your days,
- Or in the days of your fathers?
- 3Tell ye your children of it,
- And let your children tell their children,
- And their children another generation.
- 4That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten;
- And that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten;
- And that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
- 5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep,
- And wail, all ye drinkers of wine,
- Because of the sweet wine,
- For it is cut off from your mouth.
- 6For a people is come up upon my land,
- Mighty, and without number;
- His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
- And he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.
- 7He hath laid my vine waste,
- And blasted my fig-tree;
- He hath made it clean bare, and cast it down,
- The branches thereof are made white.
- 8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
- For the husband of her youth.
- 9The meal-offering and the drink-offering is cut off
- From the house of the Lord;
- The priests mourn,
- Even the Lord's ministers.
- 10The field is wasted,
- The land mourneth;
- For the corn is wasted,
- The new wine is dried up,
- The oil languisheth.
- 11Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen,
- Wail, O ye vinedressers,
- For the wheat and for the barley;
- Because the harvest of the field is perished.
- 12The vine is withered,
- 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;
- For joy is withered away from the sons of men.
- 13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests,
- Wail, ye ministers of the altar;
- Come, lie all night in sackcloth,
- Ye ministers of my God,
- For the meal-offering and the drink-offering is withholden
- From the house of your God.
- 14Sanctify ye a fast,
- Call a solemn assembly,
- Gather the elders
- And all the inhabitants of the land
- Unto the house of the Lord your God,
- And cry unto the Lord.
- 15Alas for the day!
- For the day of the Lord is at hand,
- And as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
- 16Is not the food cut off
- Before our eyes,
- Yea, joy and gladness
- From the house of our God?
- 17The grains shrivel under their hoes;
- The garners are laid desolate,
- The barns are broken down;
- For the corn is withered.
- 18How do the beasts groan!
- The herds of cattle are perplexed,
- Because they have no pasture;
- Yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
- 19Unto Thee, O Lord, do I cry,
- For the fire hath devoured
- The pastures of the wilderness,
- And the flame hath set ablaze
- All the trees of the field.
- 20Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto Thee;
- For the water brooks are dried up,
- And the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
- 2Blow ye the horn 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 at hand;
- 2A day of darkness and gloominess,
- A day of clouds and thick darkness,
- As blackness spread upon the mountains;
- A great people and a mighty,
- There hath not been ever the like,
- Neither shall be any more after them,
- Even to the years of many generations.
- 3A fire devoureth before them,
- And behind them a flame blazeth;
- The land is as the garden of Eden before them,
- And behind them a desolate wilderness;
- Yea, and nothing escapeth them.
- 4The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses,
- And as horsemen, so do they run.
- 5Like the noise of chariots,
- On the tops of the mountains do they leap,
- Like the noise of a flame of fire
- That devoureth the stubble,
- As a mighty people set in battle array.
- 6At their presence the peoples are in anguish;
- All faces have gathered blackness.
- 7They run like mighty men,
- They climb the wall like men of war;
- And they move on every one in his ways,
- And they entangle not their paths.
- 8Neither doth one thrust another,
- They march every one in his highway;
- And they break through the weapons,
- And suffer no harm
- 9They leap upon the city,
- They run upon the wall,
- They climb up into the houses;
- They enter in at the windows like a thief.
- 10Before them the earth quaketh,
- The heavens tremble;
- The sun and the moon are become black,
- And the stars withdraw their shining.
- 11And the Lord uttereth His voice before His army;
- For His camp is very great,
- For he is mighty that executeth His word;
- For great is the day of the LORD and very terrible;
- And who can abide it?
- 12Yet even now, saith the Lord,
- Turn ye unto Me with all your heart,
- And with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation;
- 13And rend your heart, and not your garments,
- And turn unto the Lord your God;
- For He is gracious and compassionate,
- Long-suffering, and abundant in mercy,
- And repenteth Him of the evil.
- 14Who knoweth whether He will not turn and repent,
- And leave a blessing behind Him,
- Even a meal-offering and a drink-offering
- Unto the Lord your God?
- 15Blow the horn in Zion,
- Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly,
- 16Gather the people,
- Sanctify the congregation,
- Assemble the elders,
- Gather the children,
- And those that suck the breasts;
- Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber.
- And the bride out of her pavilion.
- 17Let 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 Thy heritage to reproach,
- That the nations should make them a byword.
- Wherefore should they say among the peoples.
- Where is their God?'
- 18Then was the Lord jealous for His land,
- And had pity on His people.
- 19And the Lord answered and said 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 nations;
- 20But I will remove far off from you the northern one,
- And will drive him into a land barren and desolate,
- With his face toward the eastern sea,
- And his hinder part toward the western sea;
- That his foulness may come up, and his ill savour may come up,
- Because he hath done great things.'
- 21Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice;
- For the Lord hath done great things.
- 22Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field;
- For the pastures of the wilderness do spring,
- For the tree beareth its fruit,
- The fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength.
- 23Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice
- In the Lord your God;
- For He giveth you the former rain in just measure,
- And He causeth to come down for you the rain,
- The former rain and the latter rain, at the first.
- 24And the floors shall be full of corn,
- And the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
- 25And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten,
- The canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm,
- My great army which I sent among you.
- 26And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
- And shall praise the name of the Lord your God,
- That hath dealt wondrously with you;
- And My people shall never be ashamed.
- 27And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
- And that I am the Lord your God, and there is none else;
- And My people shall never be ashamed.
- 3And 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;
- 2And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids
- In those days will I pour out My spirit.
- 3And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth,
- Blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
- 4The sun shall be turned into darkness,
- And the moon into blood,
- Before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.
- 5And 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 there shall be those that escape,
- As the Lord hath said,
- And among the remnant those whom the Lord shall call.
- 4For, behold, in those days, and in that time,
- When I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
- 2I will gather all nations,
- And will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;
- And I will enter into judgment with them there
- For My people and for My heritage Israel,
- Whom they have scattered among the nations,
- And divided My land.
- 3And they have cast lots for My people;
- And have given a boy for a harlot,
- And sold a girl for wine, and have drunk.
4And also what are ye to Me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render retribution on My behalf? and if ye render retribution on My behalf, swiftly, speedily will I return your retribution upon your own head. 5Forasmuch as ye have taken My silver and My gold, and have carried into your temples My goodly treasures; 6the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Jevanim, that ye might remove them far from their border; 7behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your retribution upon your own head; 8and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and; they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off; for the Lord hath spoken.
- 9Proclaim ye this among the nations,
- Prepare war;
- Stir up the mighty men;
- Let all the men of war draw near,
- Let them come up.
- 10Beat your plowshares into swords,
- And your pruning-hooks into spears;
- Let the weak say: 'I am strong.'
- 11Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about,
- And gather yourselves together;
- Thither cause Thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord!
- 12Let the nations be stirred up, and come up
- To the valley of [1]Jehoshaphat;
- For there will I sit to judge
- All the nations round about.
- 13Put ye in the sickle,
- For the harvest is ripe;
- Come, tread ye,
- For the winepress is full, the vats overflow;
- For their wickedness is great.
- 14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
- For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
- 15The sun and the moon are become black,
- And the stars withdraw their shining.
- 16And the Lord shall roar from Zion,
- And utter His voice from Jerusalem,
- And the heavens and the earth shall shake;
- But the Lord will be a refuge unto His people,
- And a stronghold to the children of Israel.
- 17So 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.
- 18And it shall come to pass in that day,
- That the mountains shall drop down sweet wine,
- And the hills shall flow with milk,
- And all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters;
- And a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord,
- And shall water the valley of Shittim.
- 19Egypt 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.
- 20But Judah shall be inhabited for ever,
- And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
- 21And I will hold as innocent their blood that I have not held as innocent;
- And the Lord dwelleth in Zion.
- ↑ That is, The Lord judgeth.