1:1 This
to Joel
1:2 Listen to this, you elders;
pay attention,
Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life
or in the lifetime
1:3 Tell your children
have your children tell their children,
and their children the following generation.
1:4 What the gazam-locust left the ‘arbeh-locust consumed,
what the ‘arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed,
and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed!
1:5 Wake up, you drunkards,
Wail, all you wine drinkers,
because the sweet wine
1:6 For a nation
There are so many of them they are too numerous to count.
Their teeth are like those
they tear apart their prey like a lioness.
1:7 They
they have turned our
They have completely stripped off the bark
the
1:8 Wail
lamenting the death of
1:9 No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings
to the temple
So the priests, those who serve the Lord, are in mourning.
1:10 The crops of the fields
The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished.
The fresh wine has dried up;
the olive oil languishes.
1:11 Be distressed,
wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley.
For the harvest of the field has perished.
1:12 The vine has dried up;
the fig tree languishes –
the pomegranate, date, and apple
In fact,
Indeed, the joy of the people