Joël Propheta 1
1 verbum Domini quod factum est ad Iohel filium Fatuhel
This is the word of Yahweh that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
2 audite hoc senes et auribus percipite omnes habitatores terrae si factum est istud in diebus vestris aut in diebus patrum vestrorum
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 super hoc filiis vestris narrate et filii vestri filiis suis et filii eorum generationi alterae
Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children the next generation.
4 residuum erucae comedit lucusta et residuum lucustae comedit bruchus et residuum bruchi comedit rubigo
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 expergescimini ebrii et flete et ululate omnes qui bibitis vinum in dulcedine quoniam periit ab ore vestro
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because the sweet wine has been cut off from you.
6 gens enim ascendit super terram meam fortis et innumerabilis dentes eius ut dentes leonis et molares eius ut catuli leonis
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 posuit vineam meam in desertum et ficum meam decorticavit nudans spoliavit eam et proiecit albi facti sunt rami eius
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 plange quasi virgo accincta sacco super virum pubertatis suae
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the death of her young husband.
9 periit sacrificium et libatio de domo Domini luxerunt sacerdotes ministri Domini
The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's servants, mourn.
10 depopulata est regio luxit humus quoniam devastatum est triticum confusum est vinum elanguit oleum
The fields are ruined, the ground is mourning because the grain has been destroyed. The new wine has dried up, the oil fails.
11 confusi sunt agricolae ululaverunt vinitores super frumento et hordeo quia periit messis agri
Be ashamed, you farmers, and wail, you vine growers, for the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the fields has perished.
12 vinea confusa est et ficus elanguit malogranatum et palma et malum et omnia ligna agri aruerunt quia confusum est gaudium a filiis hominum
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 accingite vos et plangite sacerdotes ululate ministri altaris ingredimini cubate in sacco ministri Dei mei quoniam interiit de domo Dei vestri sacrificium et libatio
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 sanctificate ieiunium vocate coetum congregate senes omnes habitatores terrae in domum Dei vestri et clamate ad Dominum
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 a a a diei quia prope est dies Domini et quasi vastitas a potente veniet
Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is almost here. With it will come destruction from the Almighty.
16 numquid non coram oculis vestris alimenta perierunt de domo Dei nostri laetitia et exultatio
Has not food been cut off from before our eyes, and joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 conputruerunt iumenta in stercore suo demolita sunt horrea dissipatae sunt apothecae quoniam confusum est triticum
The seeds rot under their clods, the granaries are desolate, and the barns have been broken down, for the grain has withered.
18 quid ingemuit animal mugierunt greges armenti quia non est pascua eis sed et greges pecorum disperierunt
How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are suffering because they have no pasture. Also, the flocks of sheep suffer.
19 ad te Domine clamabo quia ignis comedit speciosa deserti et flamma succendit omnia ligna regionis
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 sed et bestiae agri quasi area sitiens imbrem suspexerunt ad te quoniam exsiccati sunt fontes aquarum et ignis devoravit speciosa deserti
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.
