The Leeser Bible
1853 by Isaac Leeser

Joel Chapter 1

Joe 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
Joe 1:2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Did ever such a thing as this come to pass in your days, or ever in the days of your fathers?
Joe 1:3 Tell ye of it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to another generation.
Joe 1:4 What the caterpillar left hath the locust eaten; and what the locust left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm left hath the cricket eaten.
Joe 1:5 Wake up, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet new wine, that it is taken away from your mouth.
Joe 1:6 For a nation is come up over my land, strong, and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it hath the cutting–teeth of the lioness.
Joe 1:7 It hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig–tree: it hath peeled it clean bare, and cast it down; made white are its light branches.
Joe 1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the betrothed of her youth.
Joe 1:9 Cut off are the meat–offering and the drink–offering from the house of the Lord: now mourn the priests, the ministers of the Lord.
Joe 1:10 Wasted is the field, the land mourneth; for wasted is the corn: dried up is the new wine, withered is the oil.
Joe 1:11 Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen; wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because lost is the harvest of the field.
Joe 1:12 The vine is made ashamed, and the fig–tree is withered; the pomegranate–tree, the palm–tree also, and the apple–tree, even all the trees of the field, are dried up; because joy hath ceased from the children of men.
Joe 1:13 Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar: come, remain all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God; for there are withholden from the house of your God the meat–offering and the drink–offering.
Joe 1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the elders, all the inhabitants of the land, into the house of the Lord your God, and cry aloud unto the Lord.
Joe 1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and like destruction from the Almighty will it come.
Joe 1:16 Is not before our eyes the food cut off, from the house of our God joy and gladness?
Joe 1:17 The grains of seed are rotten under their clods, laid desolate are the garners, pulled down are the barns; for the corn is dried up.
Joe 1:18 How do the beasts groan! how do the herds of cattle roam about; because there is no pasture for them: yea, the flocks of sheep are made to perish.
Joe 1:19 To thee O Lord, will I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath singed all the trees of the field.
Joe 1:20 Also the beasts of the field cry unto thee panting; for the brooks of waters are dried up, and a fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.