Joel 1

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

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 ever such a thing as this come to pass in your days, or ever 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 it to your children, and let your children tell 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 caterpillar left hath the locust eaten; and what the locust left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm left hath the cricket 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 Wake up, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet new wine, that it is taken away 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 over my land, strong, and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it hath the cutting-teeth of the lioness.

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 It hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: it hath peeled it clean bare, and cast it down; made white are its light 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 like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the betrothed of her youth.

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

9 Cut off are the meat-offering and the drink-offering from the house of the Lord: now mourn the priests, the ministers of the Lord.

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

10 Wasted is the field, the land mourneth; for wasted is the corn: dried up is the new wine, withered is the oil.

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

11 Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen; wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because lost is the harvest of 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 made ashamed, and the fig-tree is withered; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dried up; because joy hath ceased 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 [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar: come, remain all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God; for there are withholden from the house of your God the meat-offering and the drink-offering.

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, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the elders, all the inhabitants of the land, into the house of the Lord your God, and cry aloud unto 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 for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and like destruction from the Almighty will it come.

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

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

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

17 The grains of seed are rotten under their clods, laid desolate are the garners, pulled down are the barns; for the corn is dried up.

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

18 How do the beasts groan! how do the herds of cattle roam about; because there is no pasture for them: yea, the flocks of sheep are made to perish.

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; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath singed 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 Also the beasts of the field cry unto thee panting; for the brooks of waters are dried up, and a fire hath devoured the pastures 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