< Joel 1 >

1 The LORD’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
verbum Domini quod factum est ad Iohel filium Fatuhel
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?
audite hoc senes et auribus percipite omnes habitatores terrae si factum est istud in diebus vestris aut in diebus patrum vestrorum
3 Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.
super hoc filiis vestris narrate et filii vestri filiis suis et filii eorum generationi alterae
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.
residuum erucae comedit lucusta et residuum lucustae comedit bruchus et residuum bruchi comedit rubigo
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.
expergescimini ebrii et flete et ululate omnes qui bibitis vinum in dulcedine quoniam periit ab ore vestro
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.
gens enim ascendit super terram meam fortis et innumerabilis dentes eius ut dentes leonis et molares eius ut catuli leonis
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.
posuit vineam meam in desertum et ficum meam decorticavit nudans spoliavit eam et proiecit albi facti sunt rami eius
8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
plange quasi virgo accincta sacco super virum pubertatis suae
9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house. The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
periit sacrificium et libatio de domo Domini luxerunt sacerdotes ministri Domini
10 The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
depopulata est regio luxit humus quoniam devastatum est triticum confusum est vinum elanguit oleum
11 Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.
confusi sunt agricolae ululaverunt vinitores super frumento et hordeo quia periit messis agri
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.
vinea confusa est et ficus elanguit malogranatum et palma et malum et omnia ligna agri aruerunt quia confusum est gaudium a filiis hominum
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.
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 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.
sanctificate ieiunium vocate coetum congregate senes omnes habitatores terrae in domum Dei vestri et clamate ad Dominum
15 Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
a a a diei quia prope est dies Domini et quasi vastitas a potente veniet
16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
numquid non coram oculis vestris alimenta perierunt de domo Dei nostri laetitia et exultatio
17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
conputruerunt iumenta in stercore suo demolita sunt horrea dissipatae sunt apothecae quoniam confusum est triticum
18 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
quid ingemuit animal mugierunt greges armenti quia non est pascua eis sed et greges pecorum disperierunt
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.
ad te Domine clamabo quia ignis comedit speciosa deserti et flamma succendit omnia ligna regionis
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.
sed et bestiae agri quasi area sitiens imbrem suspexerunt ad te quoniam exsiccati sunt fontes aquarum et ignis devoravit speciosa deserti

< Joel 1 >