1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2 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 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. 4 That which the palmerworm 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 caterpiller eaten. 5 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 a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. 7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
8 ¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn. 10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. 11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
14 ¶ Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea , joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. 18 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 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. 20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
1 Verbum Domini quod factum est ad Iohel filium Fatuhel
2 audite hoc senes et auribus percipite omnes habitatores terrae
si factum est istud in diebus vestris aut in diebus patrum vestrorum
3 super hoc filiis vestris narrate et filii vestri filiis suis
et filii eorum generationi alterae
4 residuum erucae comedit lucusta
et residuum lucustae comedit bruchus
et residuum bruchi comedit rubigo
5 expergescimini ebrii et flete
et ululate omnes qui bibitis vinum in dulcedine
quoniam periit ab ore vestro
6 gens enim ascendit super terram meam fortis et innumerabilis
dentes eius ut dentes leonis et molares eius ut catuli leonis
7 posuit vineam meam in desertum
et ficum meam decorticavit
nudans spoliavit eam et proiecit
albi facti sunt rami eius
8 plange quasi virgo accincta sacco super virum pubertatis suae
9 periit sacrificium et libatio de domo Domini
luxerunt sacerdotes ministri Domini
10 depopulata est regio luxit humus
quoniam devastatum est triticum
confusum est vinum elanguit oleum
11 confusi sunt agricolae
ululaverunt vinitores super frumento et hordeo
quia periit messis agri
12 vinea confusa est et ficus elanguit
malogranatum et palma et malum et omnia ligna agri aruerunt
quia confusum est gaudium a filiis hominum
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
14 sanctificate ieiunium vocate coetum
congregate senes omnes habitatores terrae in domum Dei vestri
et clamate ad Dominum
15 a a a diei quia prope est dies Domini
et quasi vastitas a potente veniet
16 numquid non coram oculis vestris alimenta perierunt
de domo Dei nostri laetitia et exultatio
17 conputruerunt iumenta in stercore suo
demolita sunt horrea dissipatae sunt apothecae
quoniam confusum est triticum
18 quid ingemuit animal
mugierunt greges armenti quia non est pascua eis
sed et greges pecorum disperierunt
19 ad te Domine clamabo quia ignis comedit speciosa deserti
et flamma succendit omnia ligna regionis
20 sed et bestiae agri quasi area sitiens imbrem suspexerunt ad te
quoniam exsiccati sunt fontes aquarum
et ignis devoravit speciosa deserti