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Joel 1 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:1 - The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Bathuel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:2 - Hear these words, ye elders, and hearken all ye that inhabit the land. [fn]Have such things happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:3 - Tell your children concerning them, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:4 - The leavings of the [fn]caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:5 - Awake, ye drunkards, from [fn]your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness are removed from your mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:6 - For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion's teeth, and their back teeth those of a lion's whelp.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 - He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched my vine, and cast it down; he has [fn]peeled its branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:8 - Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the [fn]husband of her youth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:9 - The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:10 - For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:11 - the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the [fn]harvest has perished from off the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:12 - The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm-tree, and apple, and all the trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men [fn]have abolished joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:13 - Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests: mourn, ye that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, ye that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:14 - Sanctify a fast, proclaim a solemn service, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:15 - Alas, alas, alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is nigh, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:16 - Your meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:17 - The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine-presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:18 - What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:19 - To thee, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - And the cattle of the field have looked up to thee: for the [fn]fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.
BES Footnotes
Gr. if.
It is difficult to assign the exact meaning of the Greek.
Gr. their.
Gr. whitened, Gen. 30:37.
i. e. one who married her as a virgin.
Or, vintage.
Gr. disfigured, or, disgraced.
Gr. issues. See 2 Kings 22:16; Ezek. 47:4.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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