# Joel 1

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/joel/1

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Yahweh's word that came to Joel, son of Pethuel.
2. Listen to this, elders, and give ear, all you who dwell in the land. Has this happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
3. Recount it to your children, your children to their children, and their children to another generation.
4. The locust consumed what the palmerworm left, the cankerworm consumed what the locust left, and the caterpillar consumed what the cankerworm left.
5. Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; howl, all you who drink wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
6. For a mighty nation without number has come up upon my land; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its cheek teeth those of a lioness.
7. He has ruined my vine and stripped the bark from my fig tree, stripped it bare, hurled it away, and whitened its branches.
8. Lament like a virgin clothed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9. Grain offering and drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.
10. The field lies ruined, the ground mourns, because the grain lies ruined, new wine withers, oil fails.
11. Be ashamed, farmers; howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
12. The vine shrivels, the fig tree fades; pomegranate, palm also, and apple tree—all trees of the field shrivel—for joy shrivels from the sons of men.
13. Gird yourselves and lament, priests; howl, you who serve at the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who serve my God, for the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
14. Consecrate a fast, call an assembly, gather the elders and all who dwell in the land to the house of Yahweh your God, and cry to Yahweh.
15. Alas for the day! For near is the day of Yahweh, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
16. Isn't food—joy and gladness from the house of our God—cut off before our eyes?
17. The seeds have rotted under their clods; granaries lie desolate, barns lie ruined, because the grain has withered.
18. How the beasts groan, cattle herds distraught because no pasture remains for them—indeed, the sheep flocks lie desolate.
19. To you, Yahweh, I call, for fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has scorched all the trees of the field.
20. Even the beasts of the field pant to you, for the watercourses have dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

## Nearby chapters

[Hosea 14](https://www.lumin.faith/read/hosea/14.md)
[Joel 2](https://www.lumin.faith/read/joel/2.md)

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