Joel 1

1 The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

word LORD which to be to(wards) Joel son: child 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?

to hear: hear this [the] old: elder and to listen all to dwell [the] land: country/planet to be this in/on/with day your and if in/on/with day father your

3 Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

upon her to/for son: child your to recount and son: child your to/for son: child their and son: child their to/for generation another

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.

remainder [the] locust to eat [the] locust and remainder [the] locust to eat [the] locust and remainder [the] locust to eat [the] locust

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.

to awake drunken and to weep and to wail all to drink wine upon sweet for to cut: eliminate from lip your

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.

for nation to ascend: rise upon land: country/planet my mighty and nothing number tooth his tooth lion and jaw lion to/for him

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.

to set: make vine my to/for horror: destroyed and fig my to/for splinter to strip to strip her and to throw to whiten tendril her

8 Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

to wail like/as virgin to gird sackcloth upon master: husband youth her

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.

to cut: eliminate offering and drink offering from house: temple LORD to mourn [the] priest to minister LORD

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.

to ruin land: country to mourn land: soil for to ruin grain to wither new wine to weaken oil

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.

be ashamed farmer to wail to tend vineyards upon wheat and upon barley for to perish harvest land: country

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.

[the] vine to wither and [the] fig to weaken pomegranate also palm and apple all tree [the] land: country to wither for be ashamed rejoicing from son: child man

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.

to gird and to mourn [the] priest to wail to minister altar to come (in): come to lodge in/on/with sackcloth to minister God my for to withhold from house: temple God your offering and drink offering

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.

to consecrate: consecate fast to call: call to assembly to gather old: elder all to dwell [the] land: country/planet house: temple LORD God your and to cry out to(wards) LORD

15 Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

alas! to/for day for near day LORD and like/as violence from Almighty to come (in): come

16 Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

not before eye our food to cut: eliminate from house: temple God our joy and rejoicing

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.

to shrivel grain underneath: under clod their be desolate: destroyed treasure to overthrow granary for to wither grain

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.

what? to sigh animal to perplex flock cattle for nothing pasture to/for them also flock [the] flock be guilty

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.

to(wards) you LORD to call: call to for fire to eat habitation wilderness and flame to kindle all tree [the] land: country

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.

also animal land: country to long for to(wards) you for to wither channel water and fire to eat habitation [the] wilderness