Joel 1 (NET)

Joel 1:1¹This is the Lord ’s message that came to Joel the son of Pethuel:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:16Jer 1:22 Pet 1:21Ezek 1:3Hos 1:1

Joel 1:2²Listen to this, you elders; pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life or in the lifetime of your ancestors?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 2:2Hos 5:1Jer 30:7Job 8:8Amos 3:1Amos 4:1Amos 5:1Dan 12:1Deut 4:32-35Hos 4:1

Joel 1:3³Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 6:7Exod 13:14Ps 145:4Ps 71:18Exod 10:1-2Isa 38:19Ps 44:1Ps 78:3-8Josh 4:21-22Josh 4:6-7

Joel 1:4⁴What the gazam -locust left the ‘arbeh -locust consumed, what the ‘arbeh -locust left the yeleq -locust consumed, and what the yeleq -locust left the hasil -locust consumed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 2:25Amos 4:9Amos 7:1Exod 10:4Isa 33:4Ps 78:46Deut 28:38Ps 105:342 Chr 7:13Exod 10:12-15

Joel 1:5⁵Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 5:1Luke 21:34-36Isa 32:10-12Isa 24:7-11Jer 4:8Amos 6:3-7Ezek 30:2Joel 1:11Joel 1:13Joel 3:3

Joel 1:6⁶For a nation has invaded my land, mighty and without number. Their teeth are lion’s teeth; they have the fangs of a lioness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 2:25Isa 8:8Joel 2:2-11Prov 30:14Rev 9:7-10Hos 9:3Isa 32:13Prov 30:25-27Ps 107:34

Joel 1:7⁷They have destroyed my vines; they have turned my fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown it aside; the twigs are stripped bare.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 4:9Isa 5:6Joel 1:12Exod 10:15Hab 3:17Hos 2:12Isa 24:7Jer 8:13Ps 105:33

Joel 1:8⁸Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband to be.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 22:12Mal 2:15Jas 5:1Amos 8:10Isa 24:7-12Isa 32:11Jas 4:8-9Jer 3:4Jer 9:17-19Joel 1:13-15

Joel 1:9⁹No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of the Lord anymore. So the priests, those who serve the Lord, are in mourning.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 2:14Joel 2:17Hos 9:4Joel 1:13Isa 61:6Lam 1:162 Chr 13:10Joel 1:16Lam 1:4Exod 28:1

Joel 1:10¹⁰The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 4:3Hos 9:2Jer 12:11Joel 1:5Hag 1:11Jer 12:4Jer 14:2-6Jer 48:33Joel 1:12Joel 1:17-20

Joel 1:11¹¹Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 14:3-4Isa 17:11Jer 9:12Amos 5:16Rom 5:5

Joel 1:12¹²The vine has dried up; the fig tree languishes— the pomegranate, date, and apple as well. In fact, all the trees of the field have dried up. Indeed, the joy of the people has dried up!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 16:10Isa 24:11Hab 3:17-18Hos 9:1-2Joel 1:10Joel 1:16Song 2:3Hag 2:19Isa 9:3Jer 48:3

Joel 1:13¹³Get dressed and lament, you priests. Wail, you who minister at the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 4:8Joel 1:8-91 Kgs 21:27Ezek 7:18Jer 9:10Joel 2:17Jonah 3:5-81 Cor 4:11 Cor 9:132 Cor 11:23

Joel 1:14¹⁴Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the temple of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 2:15-162 Chr 20:132 Chr 20:3-4Deut 29:10-11Jonah 3:8Lev 23:36Neh 9:2-3Neh 8:18

Joel 1:15¹⁵How awful that day will be! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 13:6-9Jer 30:7Zeph 1:14-18Ezek 7:2-12Jas 5:9Joel 2:11Joel 2:31Rev 6:17Amos 5:16-18Joel 2:1-2

Joel 1:16¹⁶Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:6-7Ps 105:3Ps 43:4Amos 4:6-7Deut 12:11-12Deut 16:10-15Isa 3:7Isa 62:8-9Joel 1:13Joel 1:5-9

Joel 1:17¹⁷The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated, and granaries have been torn down, because the grain has dried up.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 23:16Isa 17:10-11

Joel 1:18¹⁸Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 4:3Jer 12:4Jer 14:5-61 Kgs 18:5Joel 1:20Rom 8:22

Joel 1:19¹⁹To you, O Lord, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, flames have razed all the trees in the fields.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 9:10Ps 50:15Amos 7:4Mic 7:7Hab 3:17-18Joel 2:3Luke 18:7Ps 91:15Luke 18:1Phil 4:6-7

Joel 1:20²⁰Even the wild animals cry out to you, for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the pastures of the wilderness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 104:211 Kgs 17:71 Kgs 18:5Job 38:41Ps 145:15Ps 147:9