1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
2 Listen to this, elders, and pay close attention, all inhabitants of the land. Did this ever happen in your days or in the days of your fathers?
3 Talk this over with your sons, and your sons with their sons, and their sons with another generation.
4 The locust has eaten what the caterpillar has left, and the beetle has eaten what the locust has left, and the mildew has eaten what the beetle has left.
5 Rouse yourselves, you drunkards, and weep and wail, all you who delight in drinking wine; for it has been cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation has ascended over my land: strong and without number. His teeth are like the teeth of a lion, and his molars are like that of a lion’s young.
7 He has put my vineyard into desolation, and he has pulled off the bark of my fig tree. He has stripped it bare and cast it away; its branches have become white.
8 Lament like a betrothed virgin, wrapped in sackcloth at the loss of the husband of her youth.
9 Sacrifice and libation have perished from the house of the Lord; the priests who are ministers of the Lord have mourned.
10 The region has been depopulated, the soil has mourned. For the wheat has been devastated, the wine has been disfigured, the oil has languished.
11 The farmers have been confounded, the vineyard workers have wailed over the crop and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vineyard is in ruin, and the fig tree has languished. The pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the fruit tree, and all the trees of the field have withered. For joy has been thrown into disorder before the sons of men.
13 Priests, gird yourselves and lament. Ministers of the altars, wail. Enter, ministers of my God, lie in sackcloth. For sacrifice and libation have passed away from the house of your God.
14 Sanctify a fast, call an assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God. And cry out to the Lord:
15 “Ah, ah, ah, the day!” For the day of the Lord is near, and it will arrive, like a devastation, before the powerful.
16 Has not your nourishment perished from before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The mules have rotted in their own manure, the barns have been demolished, the wine cellars have been destroyed, because the grain has been ruined.
18 Why have the animals groaned, the herds of cattle bellowed? because there is no pasture for them. Yes, and even the flocks of sheep have been lost.
19 To you, O Lord, I will cry out, because fire has devoured the beauty of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the countryside.
20 Yes, and even the beasts of the field have gazed up at you, like the dry ground thirsting for rain, because the fountains of waters have dried up, and fire has devoured the beauty of the wilderness.
Versículos relacionados com Joel, 1:
Chapter 1 of Joel's book begins with a description of a pest of grasshoppers who devastated the land of Judah, causing hunger and misery to the people. The prophet calls for the population to regret and repent of their sins, for the day of the Lord is near. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in Joel 1:
Amós 4:9: "He hurt you with east wind burns and rust; the grasshopper has multiplied over your gardens and vineyards, and over your figs and olive trees, the larva consumed everything; yet you have not converted to me, say the Lord." This verse talks about the pest of grasshoppers and other natural disasters that God sent as judgment about the people of Israel, but that they did not repent of their sins.
Isaiah 13:6: "To bear, for, for the day of the Lord is close; it comes from the Almighty as a giving." Just as Joel summons the people to regret and repent before the pest of locusts, Isaiah also talks about the day of the Lord, a day of judgment and brush that is near.
Amos 5:16: "Therefore, thus saith the Lord, God of hosts, the Lord: In all the streets there will be weeping, and in all the roads will say, Oh! Oh! knew how to mourn. " This verse also talks about lament and weeping before the day of the Lord and divine judgment.
Job 2:8: "Then Job, taking a shard to scrape him with him, sat in the middle of the gray." Just as the people of Judah tore their robes and mourned before the pest of locusts, Job, in his pain and suffering, also ripped his garments and sat on the ash.
Psalm 107:33-34: "He transforms rivers into deserts, and sources into dry land; the fruit earth into salted earth because of the wickedness of its residents." This psalm talks about how God can transform a fertile earth into an arid desert because of the wickedness of the people. This idea is similar to what Joel described about the grasshopper plague that devastated the land of Judah.
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