Joel 1

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

This is the word of Yahweh that came to Joel 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, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?

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 about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children the next 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

What the swarming locust has left the great locust has eaten; what the great locust has left the grasshopper has eaten; and what the grasshopper has left the caterpillar has eaten.

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

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because the sweet wine has been cut off from you.

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. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the teeth of a lioness.

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 made my vineyard into a desolate place and has stripped my fig tree bare. He has stripped its bark and thrown it away; the branches are bare white.

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

Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the death of her young husband.

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

The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's servants, mourn.

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

The fields are ruined, the ground is mourning because the grain has been destroyed. The new wine has dried up, the oil fails.

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

Be ashamed, you farmers, and wail, you vine growers, for the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the fields has 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 vines have withered and the fig trees have dried up, the pomegranate trees, also the palm trees, and the apple trees— all the trees of the field have withered. For joy has withered away from the descendants of mankind.

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

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you servants of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you servants of my God. For the grain offering and the drink offering have been 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

Call for a holy fast, and call a holy assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Yahweh your God, and cry to Yahweh.

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 Yahweh is almost here. With it will come destruction from the Almighty.

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

Has not food been cut off from before our eyes, and 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 seeds rot under their clods, the granaries are desolate, and the barns have been broken down, for the grain has withered.

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

How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are suffering because they have no pasture. Also, the flocks of sheep suffer.

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

Yahweh, I cry to you. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flames have burned all the trees of the fields.

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

Even the animals of the fields pant for you, for the water brooks have dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.