1 The word of Yahweh that was addressed to Joel son of Pethuel.
2 Listen to this, you elders; everybody in the country, attend! Has anything like this ever happened in your day, or in your ancestors' days?
3 Tell your children about it and let your children tell their children, and their children the next generation!
4 What the nibbler has left, the grown locust has eaten, what the grown locust has left, the hopper has eaten, and what the hopper has left, the shearer has eaten.
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! All you wine-bibbers, lament for the new wine: it has been snatched from your lips.
6 For a nation has invaded my country, mighty and innumerable, with teeth like a lion's teeth, with the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has reduced my vines to a desolation and my fig trees to splinters, stripped them and broken them down, leaving their branches white.
8 Mourn, as a virgin-bride in sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth!
9 Cereal offering and libation are lost to Yahweh's Temple. The priests, the ministers of Yahweh, are in mourning.
10 The fields are ruined, the land is in mourning, for the grain has been ruined, the new wine has failed, of olive oil only a trickle.
11 Stand dismayed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, for the wheat, for the barley! The harvest of the fields has been lost!
12 The vine has withered, the fig tree wilts away; pomegranate, palm tree, apple tree, every tree in the countryside is dry, and for human beings joy has run dry too.
13 Priests, put on sackcloth and lament! You ministers of the altar, wail! Come here, lie in sackcloth all night long, you ministers of my God! For the Temple of your God has been deprived of cereal offering and libation.
14 Order a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly; you elders, summon everybody in the country to the Temple of Yahweh your God. Cry out to Yahweh:
15 'Alas for the day! For the Day of Yahweh is near, coming as destruction from Shaddai.'
16 Has not the food disappeared before our very eyes? Have not joy and gladness vanished from the Temple of our God?
17 The seeds shrivel under their clods; the granaries are deserted, the barns are in ruins, because the harvest has dried out.
18 Loudly the cattle groan! The herds of oxen are bewildered because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep bear the punishment too.
19 Yahweh, to you I cry: for fire has devoured the desert pastures, flame has burnt up all the trees in the countryside.
20 Even the wild animals pant loudly for you, for the watercourses have run dry, and fire has devoured the desert pastures.
Versículos relacionados com Joel, 1:
Chapter 1 of Joel's book begins with a description of a pest of grasshoppers who devastated the land of Judah, causing hunger and misery to the people. The prophet calls for the population to regret and repent of their sins, for the day of the Lord is near. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in Joel 1:
Amós 4:9: "He hurt you with east wind burns and rust; the grasshopper has multiplied over your gardens and vineyards, and over your figs and olive trees, the larva consumed everything; yet you have not converted to me, say the Lord." This verse talks about the pest of grasshoppers and other natural disasters that God sent as judgment about the people of Israel, but that they did not repent of their sins.
Isaiah 13:6: "To bear, for, for the day of the Lord is close; it comes from the Almighty as a giving." Just as Joel summons the people to regret and repent before the pest of locusts, Isaiah also talks about the day of the Lord, a day of judgment and brush that is near.
Amos 5:16: "Therefore, thus saith the Lord, God of hosts, the Lord: In all the streets there will be weeping, and in all the roads will say, Oh! Oh! knew how to mourn. " This verse also talks about lament and weeping before the day of the Lord and divine judgment.
Job 2:8: "Then Job, taking a shard to scrape him with him, sat in the middle of the gray." Just as the people of Judah tore their robes and mourned before the pest of locusts, Job, in his pain and suffering, also ripped his garments and sat on the ash.
Psalm 107:33-34: "He transforms rivers into deserts, and sources into dry land; the fruit earth into salted earth because of the wickedness of its residents." This psalm talks about how God can transform a fertile earth into an arid desert because of the wickedness of the people. This idea is similar to what Joel described about the grasshopper plague that devastated the land of Judah.
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