Joel 1
1 The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
Palavra do Senhor, que foi dirigida a Joel, filho de Pethuel.
2 Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
Ouvi isto, vós, anciãos, e escutae, todos os moradores da terra: Porventura isto aconteceu em vossos dias? ou tambem nos dias de vossos paes?
3 Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.
Fazei sobre isto uma narração a vossos filhos, e vossos filhos a seus filhos, e os filhos d'estes á outra geração.
4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.
O que ficou da lagarta o comeu o gafanhoto, e o que ficou do gafanhoto o comeu a locusta, e o que ficou da locusta o comeu o pulgão.
5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.
Despertae-vos, bebados, e chorae e uivae, todos os que bebeis vinho, por causa do mosto, porque cortado é da vossa bocca.
6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.
Porque uma nação subiu sobre a minha terra, poderosa e sem numero: os seus dentes são dentes de leão, e teem queixaes de um leão velho.
7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.
Fez da minha vide uma assolação, e descortiçou a minha figueira: despiu-a toda, e a lançou por terra; os seus sarmentos se embranqueceram.
8 Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.
Lamenta como uma virgem que está cingida de sacco, pelo marido da sua mocidade.
9 The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.
Cortou-se a offerta de manjar, e a libação da casa do Senhor: os sacerdotes, servos do Senhor, estão entristecidos.
10 The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.
O campo está assolado, e a terra triste; porque o trigo está destruido, o mosto se seccou, o oleo falta.
11 The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.
Os lavradores se envergonham, os vinhateiros uivam, sobre o trigo e sobre a cevada; porque a sega do campo pereceu.
12 The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.
A vide se seccou, a figueira se murchou; a romeira, tambem, e a palmeira e a macieira; todas as arvores do campo se seccaram, e a alegria se seccou entre os filhos dos homens.
13 Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.
Cingi-vos e lamentae-vos, sacerdotes; uivae, ministros do altar; entrae e passae, vestidos de saccos, a noite, ministros do meu Deus; porque a offerta de manjares, e a libação, affastada está da casa de vosso Deus.
14 Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.
Sanctificae um jejum, apregoae um dia de prohibição, congregae os anciãos, e todos os moradores d'esta terra, na casa do Senhor vosso Deus, e clamae ao Senhor.
15 Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.
Ah! aquelle dia! porque o dia do Senhor está perto, e virá como uma assolação do Todo-poderoso.
16 Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?
Porventura o mantimento não está cortado de diante de nossos olhos? a alegria e o regozijo da casa de nosso Deus?
17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.
A novidade apodreceu debaixo dos seus torrões, os celleiros foram assolados, os armazens derribados, porque se seccou o trigo.
18 What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.
Como geme o gado, as manadas de vaccas estão confusas, porque não teem pasto: tambem os rebanhos de ovelhas são destruidos.
19 O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.
A ti, ó Senhor clamo, porque o fogo consumiu os pastos do deserto, e a chamma abrazou todas as arvores do campo.
20 The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.
Tambem todas as bestas do campo bramam a ti; porque os rios de agua se seccaram, e o fogo consumiu os pastos do deserto.
