Joel 1

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

The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

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 this, all of you old men, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or even 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 all of you your children of it, 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

That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust has left has the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left has the caterpillar 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, all of you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off 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 nation has come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.

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 laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

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

Lament like 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 food offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.

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

The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.

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

Be all of you ashamed, O all of you husbandmen; wail, O all of you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

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 tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

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, and lament, all of you priests: wail, all of you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, all of you ministers of my God: for the food offering and the drink offering is 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 all of you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

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

Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

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

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

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

The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns 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

How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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

O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned 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

The beasts of the field cry also unto you: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.