< 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. Hath 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 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 palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath 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, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye 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 is come up upon my land, strong and without number: his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek 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 hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white.
8 to wail like/as virgin to gird sackcloth upon master: husband youth her
Wail 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 oblation 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 mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
11 be ashamed farmer to wail to tend vineyards upon wheat and upon barley for to perish harvest land: country
Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath 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 languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm also and the apple-tree; all the trees of the field are withered, yea, joy is withered away from the children 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, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden 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
Hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the elders, [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto 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 as 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, 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 are rotten under their clods, the granaries 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 bewildered, for they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep also are in suffering.
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, Jehovah, do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned 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
The beasts of the field also cry unto thee; for the water-courses are dried, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.