Joel 1

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

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

2 Hear these [words], you elders, and listen all you that inhabit the land. Have such things happen 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 Tell your children concerning them, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children 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 The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.

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

5 Awake, you drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all you that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and removed are from your mouth.

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 strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion's teeth, and their back teeth those of a [lion's] whelp.

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 He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched [my vine], and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.

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 Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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

9 The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, you priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.

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

10 For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;

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

11 the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.

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

12 The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have have abolished joy.

[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 Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, you priests: mourn, you that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, you that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld 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 Sanctify a fast, proclaim a [solemn] service, gather the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly 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 Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.

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

16 [Your] meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.

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

17 The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.

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

18 What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.

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

19 To you, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.

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

20 And the cattle of the field have looked up to you: for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.

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