2 Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near, 2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through...
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Joel 1:13-20
13 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. 14 Consecrate 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 out to the Lord. 15 Alas for...
Joel 1:8-12
8 Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.9 The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord.The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord.10 The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns,because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes. 11 Be ashamed,[b] O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers,for the wheat and the barley, because the...
Joel 1:4-7
4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten. 5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its...