Joel 1

1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Phatuel.

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

2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land: did this ever 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 ye of this to your children, and let your children tell 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 That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed.

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, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off 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 nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number: his teeth are like the teeth of a lion: and his cheek teeth as 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 hath laid my vineyard waste, and hath pilled off the bark of my fig tree: he hath stripped it bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof 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 Lament like 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 Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord’s ministers, have mourned:

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

10 The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.

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

11 The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.

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

12 The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children 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 Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is cut off 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 ye a fast, call an assembly; gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye 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 Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.

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

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

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

17 The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.

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

18 Why did the beast groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished.

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

19 To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness, and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the country.

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

20 Yea and the beasts of the field have looked up to thee, as a garden bed that thirsteth after rain, for the springs of waters are dried up, and fire hath devoured the beautiful 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