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		Joel 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
		Joel 1:2 Hear this, O elders, Listen closely, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing as this occurred in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers?
		Joel 1:3 Tell your children about it, And let your children tell their children, And their children the next generation.
		Joel 1:4 ¶ What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten [in judgment of Judah].
		Joel 1:5 Awake [from your intoxication], you drunkards, and weep; Wail, all you drinkers of wine, Because of the [fresh] sweet wine That is cut off from your mouth.
		Joel 1:6 For a [pagan and hostile] nation has invaded My land [like locusts], Mighty and without number; Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it has the fangs of a lioness. [Rev 9:7, 8]
		Joel 1:7 It has made My vine (My people) a waste and object of horror, And splintered and broken My fig tree. It has stripped them completely bare and thrown them away; Their branches have become white. [Is 5:5, 6]
		Joel 1:8 ¶ Wail like a virgin [bride] clothed with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth [who has died].
		Joel 1:9 The [daily] grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of the LORD; The priests mourn Who minister to the LORD.
		Joel 1:10 The field is ruined, The ground mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine is dried up, The fresh oil fails.
		Joel 1:11 Be ashamed, O farmers; Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and for the barley, Because the harvest of the field has perished.
		Joel 1:12 The vine dries up And the fig tree fails; The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree, All the trees of the field dry up, Indeed, joy dries up and withdraws From the sons of men.
		Joel 1:13 ¶ Clothe yourselves with sackcloth And lament (cry out in grief), O priests; Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth [and pray without ceasing], O ministers of my God, For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.
		Joel 1:14 Consecrate a fast, Proclaim a solemn assembly, Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land To the house of the LORD your God, And cry out to the LORD [in penitent pleadings].
		Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! For the [judgment] day of the LORD is at hand, And it will come [upon the nation] as a destruction from the Almighty. [Zeph 1:14-18]
		Joel 1:16 Has not the food been cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
		Joel 1:17 The seeds [of grain] shrivel under the clods, The storehouses are desolate and empty, The barns are in ruins Because the grain is dried up.
		Joel 1:18 How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered and wander aimlessly Because they have no pasture; Even the flocks of sheep suffer.
		Joel 1:19 O LORD, I cry out to You, For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.
		Joel 1:20 Even the wild animals pant [in longing] for You; For the water brooks are dried up And fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness.

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