The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:8 (NIV)

Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth
grieving for the betrothed of her youth.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:9 (NIV)

Grain offerings and drink offerings
are cut off from the house of the Lord.
The priests are in mourning,
those who minister before the Lord.

 

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Joel 1:10 (NIV)

The fields are ruined,
the ground is dried up;
the grain is destroyed,
the new wine is dried up,
the olive oil fails.

 

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Joel 1:11 (NIV)

Despair, you farmers,
wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field is destroyed.

 

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Joel 1:12 (NIV)

The vine is dried up
and the fig-tree is withered;
the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree –
all the trees of the field – are dried up.
Surely the people’s joy
is withered away.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:13 (NIV)

Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn;
wail, you who minister before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings
are withheld from the house of your God.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:14 (NIV)

Declare a holy fast;
call a sacred assembly.
Summon the elders
and all who live in the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
and cry out to the Lord.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:15 (NIV)

Alas for that day!
For the day of the Lord is near;
it will come like destruction from the Almighty.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:16 (NIV)

Has not the food been cut off
before our very eyes –
joy and gladness

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:17 (NIV)

The seeds are shrivelled
beneath the clods.
The storehouses are in ruins,
the granaries have been broken down,
for the grain has dried up.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:18 (NIV)

How the cattle moan!
The herds mill about
because they have no pasture;
even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:19 (NIV)

To you, Lord, I call,
for fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness
and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:20 (NIV)

Even the wild animals pant for you;
the streams of water have dried up
and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 2:1 (NIV)

Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy hill.
Let all who live in the land tremble,
for the day of the Lord is coming.
It is close at hand –

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 2:2 (NIV)

a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and blackness.
Like dawn spreading across the mountains
a large and mighty army comes,
such as never was in ancient times
nor ever will be in ages to come.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 2:3 (NIV)

Before them fire devours,
behind them a flame blazes.
Before them the land is like the garden of Eden,
behind them, a desert waste –
nothing escapes them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 2:4 (NIV)

They have the appearance of horses;
they gallop along like cavalry.

 

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Joel 2:5 (NIV)

With a noise like that of chariots
they leap over the mountaintops,
like a crackling fire consuming stubble,
like a mighty army drawn up for battle.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 2:6 (NIV)

At the sight of them, nations are in anguish;
every face turns pale.

 

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Joel 2:7 (NIV)

They charge like warriors;
they scale walls like soldiers.
They all march in line,
not swerving from their course.