Joel 1

1 The LORD’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

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

2 Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

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

3 Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

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

4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

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

5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

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

6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

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

7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

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

8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

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

9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house. The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.

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

10 The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

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

11 Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

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

12 The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered— the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

[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

13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

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

14 Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD.

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

15 Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

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

16 Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

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

17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

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

18 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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

19 LORD, I cry to you, for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

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

20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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