chapter
I.
-
The Word of JEHOVAH which was to Joel the son of Pethuel.
-
Hear this, you elders, and cause all the inhabitants of the
earth to listen. Was [ever] this in your days, or even
-
in the days of your fathers? Tell it over to your sons, and
your sons to their sons, and their sons to another
-
generation. The remainder from the gnawing-locust the
abundant-locust ate, and the remainder from the abundant-locust the
licking-locust ate; and the remainder from the
-
licking-locust the consuming-locust ate! Cause drunken
ones to awake, and weep you: and cause all the drinkers of wine to howl—over
new wine: because it was cut off
-
from your mouth. For a nation ascended over my earth, mighty
and without number—his teeth are the teeth of a lion; and they are
the jaw-teeth of a bold lion for him.
-
He has put my vine to desolation, and my fig-tree to
dissolution. [By] uncovering, he uncovered it, and he caused [it] to be cast
down: they caused its tendrils to
-
whiten. Adjure you, [O daughter of Zion], as a virgin girded
with sackcloth, over the owner of her childhood.
-
He caused oblation and libation to be cut off from the
House of JEHOVAH: the priests, the ministers of Jehovah,
-
mourned. A field was
utterly devastated, ground
mourned, because grain was utterly devastated. He caused must
-
to be dried up, new oil to waste away. Cause husbandmen to
be put to shame: cause vinedressers to howl, over wheat and over barley:
because the harvest of a field
-
perished. It caused the vine to be dried up, and the
fig-tree to waste away: pomegranate, palm-tree also, and apricot-tree—all the
trees of the field—were dried up, because he caused joy to be dried up from the
sons of man.
-
Gird you and lament, you priests: cause the ministers of an
altar to howl: come in, lodge [for the night] in the sacks, you ministers of my
god : because oblation and libation was withheld from the House of your
god.
-
Sanctify a fast, call a restraint: gather in elders, [even]
all the inhabitants of the earth into the House of JEHOVAH your GOD: and
call out to JEHOVAH—
-
Alas for the day! For the Day of JEHOVAH
is near,
and
-
as a devastation from Shaddai it will come in. Was not food
cut off in front of our two eyes—gladness and
-
exultation from the House of our GOD? Sown seeds vanished
under their ravagings, stores were desolated, granaries were broken through:
because he caused grain
-
to be dried up. How a beast sighed! The droves of [the] herd
were entangled: for there was nothing of pasture for them—the droves of
the flock also became
-
guilty. Unto You, O
jehovah, will I call: for fire
ate the pasture-grounds of a desert, and flame ignited all the
-
trees of the field. The beasts of a field also, [the flame]
shall incline to You: because the channels of waters were dried up, and fire
ate the pasture grounds of the desert.
chapter
II.
-
Pitch you a curved horn in Zion, and cause joyous shouting in
the mountain of My holiness; all the inhabitants of the earth will be agitated:
because the Day of
-
JEHOVAH comes in: for
it is near. The day of
obscurity and dense darkness, the day of cloud and dense cloudiness, as dawn
spread out over the mountains. An abundant and mighty people—there has not been
such [a people] from the age, and after him, He will not cause any continuance
of him, even to the years of a genera-
-
tion and generation. Fire ate before him, and after him flame
will ignite. The earth was as the garden of Eden before him, and after
him a desert of desolation; and
-
there was also no escape from him. As the appearance of
horses is his appearance; and as horsemen so [certainly]
-
will they run! As the voice of war-chariots, over the heads
of the mountains will they leap! As the voice of a blaze of fire eating
stubble—as a mighty people arranged
-
for battle. From before him, they caused peoples to
-
travail: they
caused all faces to gather pallor. As
heroes will they run; as men of battle they will ascend a rampart: and a man in
his ways will they go, and they will not
-
change their paths! Nor will they drive back a man his
brother; they will go, each individual, in his highway! And should they fall by
the missile, will they not gain?
-
In the City they will seek eagerly; in the rampart will they
run: in the houses they will ascend; by the windows
-
they will come in, as the thief. Before him, earth was
agitated, heavens quaked; sun and moon were black,
-
and stars gathered in their shining. And
jehovah caused His voice to be received before His force: for His camp
is exceedingly abundant; because it is mighty doing His word: for the Day
of JEHOVAH is great and
-
exceedingly feared, and who shall survive it? And now also,
is the declaration of JEHOVAH, return you even to Me, in all your heart, and in
a fast, and in weeping, and
-
in lamentation; and rend your heart, and not at all your
garments; and return to JEHOVAH your god
: for He is gracious
and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in
-
loving-kindness, and He repents over the evil. Who knows? He may return and comfort, and cause a blessing to be left after him, oblation
and libation, for jehovah your
god.
-
Pitch you a curved-horn in Zion: sanctify a fast, call a
-
restraint. Gather people in, sanctify a congregation, gather
elders: gather in babes and the sucklings of breasts. A bridegroom will go forth
from his chamber,
-
and a bride from her canopy. Between the porch and to the
altar, the priests—the ministers of JEHOVAH— shall weep! and they shall say,
Spare You, O JEHOVAH, over Your people, and You will not at all cause Your
inheritance to be received for disgrace—for nations to rule in them: wherefore
should they say in the peoples,
-
Where is their GOD? And JEHOVAH will be jealous for
-
His earth—and will pity over His people. And JEHOVAH will
answer and say to His people, Lo, I send forth to you the grain, and the must
and the new oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith: and I will not at all
cause you to be received any more [as] a disgrace in the nations.
-
And I will cause the northern
one to be far off from
over you, and I will cause him to be driven to the earth of dryness and
desolation—with his faces to the eastern sea, and his end to the hinder sea:
and his stench shall ascend, and his foulness will ascend: because he
-
caused [his] work to increase. You shall not at all fear, O
ground: exult you and rejoice: for JEHOVAH shall
-
cause [His] work to increase. You shall not at all fear, O
beasts of My field; because the pasture-grounds of a desert have sprouted
forth: because a tree has sustained its fruit—a fig-tree and vine caused their
force to be
-
received. Exult then, you sons of Zion, and rejoice in
JEHOVAH your GOD: for He has caused the early rain to be received for you to
righteousness: and He will cause to descend for you shower, early rain and
latter
-
rain [as] in the first. And they shall fill the
threshing-floors [with] cleaned-corn; and they shall cause the
-
wine-vats to distend [with] must and new oil. And I will
repay to you the years which the abundant-locust ate, the
licking-locust, and the consuming-locust and the gnawing-locust—My great force
which I put forth in you.
-
And eating you shall eat and be satisfied, and praise the
Name of JEHOVAH your god, Who has done with you [so as] to cause wonder
: and My people—they shall not
-
be ashamed for an age. And you shall know, for I
am in
the midst of Israel: and I am JEHOVAH your
god, and there is
none else: and My people—they shall not be ashamed for an age.
-
And so it shall be afterwards, [that] I will shed My Spirit
over all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your elders,
they shall dream dreams!
-
your youths shall see visions: and over the servants also,
and over the maid-servants—in those days—will I shed
-
My Spirit. And I will cause portents to be received, in the
heavens and in the earth—blood and the fire, and
-
the columns of smoke. The sun shall be turned to obscurity,
and the moon to blood—before the great and
-
feared Day of JEHOVAH shall come in. And it shall be, [that]
every one who shall call on the Name of JEHOVAH shall be delivered: for in
Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be an escape, as that which JEHOVAH has
said, and in the remnants which JEHOVAH calls.
chapter
III.
1.
FOR, behold, in those
days, and in that time—[in] which I will turn back the captivity of Judah
and Jerusalem—
2.
I will also
cause all the nations to gather: and I will cause them to
descend to the valley of Jehoshaphat: and will reason with them there, over
My people and My inheritance Israel, whom they
caused to disperse in
3.
the nations, and divided
My earth—and to My people they cast a lot: and caused the boy to be
received as a harlot, and sold the girl for the wine, that they might
4.
drink. Yea, and what
are you to Me, O Tyre and Zidon
—and all the boundaries of Philistia?
Are you repaying over Me the retribution? And certainly if you
are recompensing over Me, O
swift one, quickly I will
cause
5.
your retribution to
return upon your head. That which is
My silver and My gold you took: and you caused My
6.
good desirable things to
come in for your temples: the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem,
also, you sold to the sons of the Ionians: to the intent that you might
7.
cause them to be far off
from over their border. Lo! I am
causing them to arouse from the place, whither you sold them: and I
will cause your retribution to return
8.
upon your head. And I
will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah,
and they shall sell them to [the] Shebeans—to a nation afar off: for
JEHOVAH has spoken.
9.
Call you this in the
nations; sanctify battle: cause the heroes to arouse; they will come
near—they will cause
10.
all the men of the battle
to ascend. Batter your coulters into swords, and your pruning hooks into
spears: let the
11.
weak
one say, I
am a hero. Hasten together and
come in, all you nations, and gather yourselves from around. Thither cause
You, O jehovah, Your heroes to come
12.
down. Let the nations be
aroused and ascend—to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I abide to
judge
13.
all the nations from
around. Send forth a sickle: for harvest is ripened: come in, descend:
because a winepress is filled—they caused the wine-vats to distend: for
14.
their evil
is abundant. Multitudes,
multitudes are in the valley
of the decision: for the Day of JEHOVAH
is near
15.
—[it is] in the valley of
the decision. Sun and moon
16.
were black; and stars
gathered in their shining; but JEHOVAH will roar from Zion, and cause His
voice to be received from Jerusalem; and heavens and the earth shall quake:
but JEHOVAH shall be a refuge
for His
17.
people, and a strength
for the sons of Israel. So shall you know that I, JEHOVAH your god,
am dwelling in Zion, the
mountain of My Holiness—and Jerusalem shall be holiness, and no aliens
shall pass through in her any more.
18.
And it shall be in that
Day, [that] the mountains shall drop new wine, and the hills shall [let] go
milk: and all the channels of Judah shall [let] go waters: and a Fountain
shall go forth from the House of JEHOVAH, and cause the brook of the
Acacias to give drink.
19.
Egypt, you shall be for
desolation; and Edom, you shall be for the desert of desolation: from the
violence of the sons of Judah—whose innocent blood they shed
20.
in their earth. But Judah
shall abide for an age: and
21.
Jerusalem, for a
generation and generation. So will I
cause their blood to be acquitted [that] I have not [yet] caused
to be acquitted.
Furthermore, JEHOVAH dwells in Zion. |