Joel 1
1 The word of Yahweh, which came unto Joel, son of Pethuel.
word LORD which to be to(wards) Joel son: child Pethuel
2 Hear this, ye elders, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land, —hath this ever happened 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 Concerning it, to your children, tell ye the story, —and your children, to their children, and their children, to the generation following: —
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 was left by the creeping locust, hath the swarming locust eaten, and, that which was left by the swarming locust, hath the grass locust eaten; and, that which was left by the grass locust, hath the corn locust 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, ye drunkards, and weep, and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, —over the new wine, because it hath been 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, hath come up over my land, bold, and without number, —his teeth, are the teeth of a lion, and, the fangs of a lioness, hath he!
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 turned my vine to a waste, and my fig-tree to splinters, —he hath, barked it clean, and cast it down, bleached are 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 Wail thou, like a virgin girded with sackcloth, for the owner of her youth.
to wail like/as virgin to gird sackcloth upon master: husband youth her
9 Cut off are the meal-offering and the drink-offering, from the house of Yahweh, —In grief are the priests, the attendants on Yahweh: —
to cut: eliminate offering and drink offering from house: temple LORD to mourn [the] priest to minister LORD
10 Laid waste is the field, in grief is the soil, —for laid waste is the corn, abashed is the new wine, languisheth the oil.
to ruin land: country to mourn land: soil for to ruin grain to wither new wine to weaken oil
11 Turn pale, ye husbandmen, howl, ye vinedressers, over the wheat, and over the barley, —for perished 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 abashed, and, the fig-tree, languisheth, —pomegranate, palm also, and apple—all the trees of the field, have withered, Yea abashed is gladness, away 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 Gird yourselves and beat the breast—ye priests, howl, ye attendants of the altar, go in and wrap yourselves for the night in sackcloth, ye attendants on my God, —for, withholden from the house of your God, are the meal-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 Hallow ye a fast, Call a solemn assembly, Gather, O elders, all the inhabitants of the land, unto the house of Yahweh your God, —and make ye outcry unto Yahweh.
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 near is the day of Yahweh, and, as a veritable Destruction from the Destroyer, shall it come.
alas! to/for day for near day LORD and like/as violence from Almighty to come (in): come
16 Is it not, before our eyes, that, food, hath been cut off? From the house of our God, rejoicing and exultation.
not before eye our food to cut: eliminate from house: temple God our joy and rejoicing
17 Rotted hath the seed, under their clods, Laid waste are their stores, Thrown down are the garners, —Yea abashed is the corn.
to shrivel grain underneath: under clod their be desolate: destroyed treasure to overthrow granary for to wither grain
18 How do the beasts groan! Perplexed are the herds of oxen, because there is no pasture for them, —even, the flocks of sheep, are destroyed!
what? to sigh animal to perplex flock cattle for nothing pasture to/for them also flock [the] flock be guilty
19 Unto thee, O Yahweh, will I cry, —for, a fire, hath consumed the pastures of the wilderness, and, a flame, hath set ablaze 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 Even the beasts of the field, moan unto thee, —because dried up are the channels of water, 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
