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Joel Chapter 1
Joel 1:1 (AMP)
1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
Joel 1:2 (NIV)
2 Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your forefathers?
Joel 1:3 (NIV)
3 Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
Joel 1:4 (NIV)
4 What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten.
Joel 1:5 (AMP)
5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the [fresh] sweet juice [of the grape], for it is cut off and removed from your mouth.
Joel 1:6 (AMP)
6 For a [heathen and hostile] nation [of locusts, illustrative of a human foe] has invaded My land, mighty and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the jaw teeth of a lioness.
Joel 1:7 (AMP)
7 It has laid waste My vine [symbol of God’s people] and barked and broken My fig tree; it has made them completely bare and thrown them down; their branches are made white.
Joel 1:8 (AMP)
8 Lament like a virgin [bride] girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth [who has died].
Joel 1:9 (AMP)
9 The meal or cereal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.
Joel 1:10 (AMP)
10 The field is laid waste, the ground mourns; for the grain is destroyed, the new juice [of the grape] is dried up, the oil fails.
Joel 1:11 (AMP)
11 Be ashamed, O you tillers of the soil; wail, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
Joel 1:12 (AMP)
12 The vine is dried up and the fig tree fails; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple or quince tree, even all the trees of the field are withered, so that joy has withered and fled away from the sons of men.
Joel 1:13 (AMP)
13 Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my [Joel’s] God, for the cereal or meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
Joel 1:14 (AMP)
14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land in the house of the Lord, your God, and cry to the Lord [in penitent pleadings].
Joel 1:15 (AMP)
15 Alas for the day! For the day of [the judgment of] the Lord is at hand, and as a destructive tempest from the Almighty will it come.
Joel 1:16 (AMP)
16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 1:17 (AMP)
17 The seed [grain] rots and shrivels under the clods, the garners are desolate and empty, the barns are in ruins because the grain has failed.
Joel 1:18 (NASB)
18 How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle wander aimlessly Because there is no pasture for them; Even the flocks of sheep suffer.
Joel 1:19 (AMP)
19 O Lord, to You will I cry, for the fire has devoured the pastures and folds of the plain and the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.
Joel 1:20 (AMP)
20 Even the wild beasts of the field pant and cry to You, for the water brooks are dried up and fire has consumed the pastures and folds of the wilderness and the plain.
Joel Chapter 2
Joel 2:1 (AMP)
1 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on My holy Mount [Zion]. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of [the judgment of] the Lord is coming; it is close at hand—
Joel 2:2 (AMP)
2 A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and of thick mists and darkness, like the morning dawn spread upon the mountains; so there comes a [heathen, hostile] people numerous and mighty, the like of which has never been before and shall not be again even to the years of many generations.
Joel 2:3 (AMP)
3 A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and none has escaped [the ravages of the devouring hordes].
Joel 2:4 (AMP)
4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses and horsemen, so do they run.
Joel 2:5 (AMP)
5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains they leap—like the noise of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a mighty people set in battle array.
Joel 2:6 (NIV)
6 At the sight of them, nations are in anguish; every face turns pale.
Joel 2:7 (AMP)
7 They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war. They march each one [straight ahead] on his ways, and they do not break their ranks.
Joel 2:8 (CJB)
8 They don’t jostle each other, but stay on their own paths; they burst through defenses unharmed, without even breaking rank.
Joel 2:9 (CJB)
9 They rush into the city, they run along the wall, they climb up into the houses, entering like a thief through the windows.
Joel 2:10 (CJB)
10 At their advance the earth quakes, and the sky shakes, the sun and moon turn black, and the stars stop shining.
Joel 2:11 (AMP)
11 And the Lord utters His voice before His army, for His host is very great, and [they are] strong and powerful who execute [God’s] word. For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible, and who can endure it?
Joel 2:12 (AMP)
12 Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning [until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored].
Joel 2:13 (AMP)
13 Rend your hearts and not your garments and return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness; and He revokes His sentence of evil [when His conditions are met].
Joel 2:14 (AMP)
14 Who knows but what He will turn, revoke your sentence [of evil], and leave a blessing behind Him [giving you the means with which to serve Him], even a cereal or meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord, your God?
Joel 2:15 (AMP)
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion; set apart a fast [a day of restraint and humility]; call a solemn assembly.
Joel 2:16 (AMP)
16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation; assemble the elderly people, gather the children and the nursing infants; let the bridegroom [who is legally exempt from attending] go forth from his chamber and the bride out of her closet. [None is exempt from the humiliation.]
Joel 2:17 (AMP)
17 Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar; and let them say, Have pity and spare Your people, O Lord, and give not Your heritage to reproach, that the [heathen] nations should rule over them or use a byword against them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
Joel 2:18 (NIV)
18 Then the Lord will be jealous for his land and take pity on his people.
Joel 2:19 (AMP)
19 Yes, the Lord answered and said to His people, Behold, I am sending you grain and juice [of the grape] and oil, and you shall be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the [heathen] nations.
Joel 2:20 (AMP)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern [destroyer’s] army and will drive it into a land barren and desolate, with its front toward the eastern [Dead] Sea and with its rear toward the western [Mediterranean] Sea. And its stench shall come up [like that of a decaying mass of locusts, a symbol and forecast of the fate of the northern army in the final day of the Lord], and its foul odor shall come up, because He has done great things [the Lord will have destroyed the invaders]!
Joel 2:21 (NIV)
21 Be not afraid, O land; be glad and rejoice. Surely the Lord has done great things.
Joel 2:22 (NIV)
22 Be not afraid, O wild animals, for the open pastures are becoming green. The trees are bearing their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their riches.
Joel 2:23 (NIV)
23 Be glad, O people of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the autumn rains in righteousness. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
Joel 2:24 (AMP)
24 And the [threshing] floors shall be full of grain and the vats shall overflow with juice [of the grape] and oil.
Joel 2:25 (AMP)
25 And I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten—the hopping locust, the stripping locust, and the crawling locust, My great army which I sent among you.
Joel 2:26 (AMP)
26 And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord, your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you. And My people shall never be put to shame.
Joel 2:27 (AMP)
27 And you shall know, understand, and realize that I am in the midst of Israel and that I the Lord am your God and there is none else. My people shall never be put to shame.
Joel 2:28 (AMP)
28 And afterward I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.
Joel 2:29 (AMP)
29 Even upon the menservants and upon the maidservants in those days will I pour out My Spirit.
Joel 2:30 (AMP)
30 And I will show signs and wonders in the heavens, and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
Joel 2:31 (AMP)
31 The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
Joel 2:32 (NIV)
32 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, among the survivors whom the Lord calls.
Joel Chapter 3
Joel 3:1 (NIV)
1 ‘In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
Joel 3:2 (NIV)
2 I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
Joel 3:3 (NIV)
3 They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine that they might drink.
Joel 3:4 (NIV)
4 ‘Now what have you against me, O Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.
Joel 3:5 (NIV)
5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.
Joel 3:6 (NIV)
6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.
Joel 3:7 (NIV)
7 ‘See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.
Joel 3:8 (NIV)
8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.’ The LORD has spoken.
Joel 3:9 (NIV)
9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
Joel 3:10 (NKJV)
10 Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ “
Joel 3:11 (NIV)
11 Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD!
Joel 3:12 (NKJV)
12 “Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Joel 3:13 (NKJV)
13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; For the winepress is full, The vats overflow– For their wickedness is great.”
Joel 3:14 (NKJV)
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Joel 3:15 (NKJV)
15 The sun and moon will grow dark, And the stars will diminish their brightness.
Joel 3:16 (NKJV)
16 The LORD also will roar from Zion, And utter His voice from Jerusalem; The heavens and earth will shake; But the LORD will be a shelter for His people, And the strength of the children of Israel.
Joel 3:17 (NKJV)
17 “So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, And no aliens shall ever pass through her again.”
Joel 3:18 (NKJV)
18 And it will come to pass in that day That the mountains shall drip with new wine, The hills shall flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water; A fountain shall flow from the house of the LORD And water the Valley of Acacias.
Joel 3:19 (NKJV)
19 “Egypt shall be a desolation, And Edom a desolate wilderness, Because of violence against the people of Judah, For they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Joel 3:20 (NKJV)
20 But Judah shall abide forever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
Joel 3:21 (NKJV)
21 For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted; For the LORD dwells in Zion.”