Joel 1

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

The Lord’s message that came to Joel, son of Pethuel.

2 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

Hear this, elders, pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors?

3 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

Recount it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the generation that follows.

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

That which the cutting locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten, that which the swarming locust has left, the hopping locust has eaten, and that which the hopping locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

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

Awake, drunkards, and weep, and wail, all drinkers of wine; the new wine is cut off from your mouth.

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

For a nation has come up on my land, powerful, and numberless; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its jaw-teeth are like those of a lioness.

7 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

It has laid waste my vines, and barked my fig tree; it has peeled and cast it away, bleached are the branches.

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

Wail as a bride, clad in sack-cloth, for the husband of her youth.

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

Cut off are the cereal and drink-offerings from the house of the Lord; in mourning are the priests, who minister at the Lord’s altar.

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

The fields are blasted, the land is in mourning, for ruined is the corn, the new wine fails and the oil is dried up.

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

Be dismayed, farmers; wail, vine-dressers. For the wheat and the barley; for the harvest is lost from the fields.

12 [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

The vine fails to bear fruit, and the fig tree is drooping; the pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up. The people’s joy withers.

13 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

Put on sackcloth, and beat your breasts, priests; wail, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sack-cloth, ministers of God; for cereal-offering and drink-offering are cut off from the house of your God.

14 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

Sanctify a fast, summon an assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, cry to the Lord:

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

Alas for the day! Near at hand is the day of the Lord, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

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

Is not food cut off from before us, gladness and joy from the house of our God?

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

The grains shrivel under their hoes, the storehouses are desolate, the barns broken down, for the corn is withered.

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

How the herds of cattle bellow in distress, for they have no pasture! The flocks of sheep are forlorn.

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

To you, the Lord, I cry. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has scorched all the trees of the field.

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

The wild animals also look up to you longingly, for the water-courses are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.