Joel 1

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

The word of Jehovah 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, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Has this been 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 ye your sons of it, and let your sons tell their sons, and their sons 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 palmer-worm has left the locust has eaten, and that which the locust has left the canker-worm has eaten, and that which the canker-worm 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

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet 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. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw-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 laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree. He has made it clean bare, and cast it away. The branches of it 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 meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah. The priests, Jehovah'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 laid waste; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, 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 confounded, O ye husbandmen. Wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for 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 withered, 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. For joy has 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 with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests. Wail, ye ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God. For the meal offering and the 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. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah.

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 Jehovah is at hand, and it shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

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 seeds rot under their clods. The garners are laid desolate. The barns are broken down. For the grain 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 Jehovah, to thee do 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

Yea, the beasts of the field pant to thee, for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.