1 This is the word of Yahweh that came to Joel, son of Pethuel. The attack of the locusts
2 Hear this, you elders! Listen, all you, land dwellers! Has such happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell it to your children, then your children to their children, and then their children to the next generation.
4 What the cutting locusts left, the swarming locusts ate. What the swarming locusts left, the hopping locusts ate. What the hopping locusts left, the destroying locusts ate.
5 Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine withheld from your mouths.
6 A nation numerous and mighty has invaded my country. It has the teeth of a lion and the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has destroyed my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and left white their branches.
8 Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
9 Grain and drink offerings are not found in the House of Yahweh. The priests who minister before Yahweh are in mourning.
10 The fields are in ruin, the earth mourns, for the grain is destroyed; the wine fails and the oil dries up.
11 Grieve, O you farmers; wail, O you vine growers, over the barley and the wheat, for the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine withers, the fig tree wilts away; pomegranate, palm and apple - all the trees of the field dry up. Oh, how joy has faded away among all these people!
13 Gird yourselves, O priests, and weep; mourn, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! For the house of your God is deprived of grain and drink offering.
14 Proclaim a fast, call an assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land into the house of your God, and cry out to Yahweh,
15 "What a dreadful day - the day of Yahweh that draws near and comes as ruin from the Almighty!"
16 Has not the food been taken away from us before our very eyes, and joy and gladness too from the house of our God?
17 The seed under the clods lies shriveled; the granaries are in ruins, the barns are broken down, for the harvest has dried up.
18 How the cattle groan! The herds wander and moan, for they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep suffer.
19 To you, Yahweh, I call. Fire has razed the open pasture; flames have burned the trees.
20 Even wild beasts cry out to you for the streams have dried up, for the pastures have been devoured by fire.
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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