Joel 1

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

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

2 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

Hear these [words], ye elders, and hearken all ye that inhabit the land. Have such things happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

3 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

Tell your children concerning them, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

7 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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12 [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

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.

13 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

Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests: mourn, ye that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, ye that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.

14 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

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,

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

Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is nigh, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

To thee, 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.

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

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