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1The word of the Lord that came to ⚓Joel the son of Pethuel.
The Land Laid Waste
2Hear this, you elders,
And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land!
⚓Has anything like this happened in your days,
Or even in the days of your fathers?
3⚓Tell your children about it,
Let your children tell their children,
And their children another generation.
4⚓What the chewing locust left, the ⚓swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
5Awake, you ⚓drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
⚓For it has been cut off from your mouth.
6For ⚓a nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
⚓His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a fierce lion.
7He has ⚓laid waste My vine,
And ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.
8⚓Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For ⚓the husband of her youth.
9⚓The grain offering and the drink offering
Have been cut off from the house of the Lord;
The priests ⚓mourn, who minister to the Lord.
10The field is wasted,
⚓The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
⚓The new wine is dried up,
The oil fails.
11⚓Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
12⚓The vine has dried up,
And the fig tree has withered;
The pomegranate tree,
The palm tree also,
And the apple tree—
All the trees of the field are withered;
Surely ⚓joy has withered away from the sons of men.
Mourning for the Land
13⚓Gird yourselves and lament, you priests;
Wail, you who minister before the altar;
Come, lie all night in sackcloth,
You who minister to my God;
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
14⚓Consecrate a fast,
Call ⚓a sacred assembly;
Gather the elders
And⚓all the inhabitants of the land
Into the house of the Lord your God,
And cry out to the Lord.
15⚓Alas for the day!
For ⚓the day of the Lordis at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
16Is not the food ⚓cut off before our eyes,
⚓Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17The seed shrivels under the clods,
Storehouses are in shambles;
Barns are broken down,
For the grain has withered.
18How ⚓the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are restless,
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.
19O Lord, ⚓to You I cry out;
For ⚓fire has devoured the open pastures,
And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
20The beasts of the field also ⚓cry out to You,
For ⚓the water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the open pastures.
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Kooj ntaas noj lub tebchaws du lug
1Nuav yog Yawmsaub tej lug kws has tuaj rua Yau‑ee kws yog Pethu‑ee tug tub.
2Mej cov laug, mej ca le noog zaaj nuav,
cov tuabneeg huv lub tebchaws suavdawg,
ca le tig ntsej noog.
Tej nuav puas txeev muaj tshwm rua mej swm neej
lossws tshwm rua mej tej laug swm neej le?
3Ca le has rua mej tej mivnyuas paub,
hab ca mej tej mivnyuas has rua tej xeeb ntxwv,
hab ca tej xeeb ntxwv has rua tam tom qaab.
4Tej kws kooj ntaas noj tsw taag,
kooj txwg muab noj,
tej kws kooj txwg noj tsw taag,
kooj tshuab muab noj.
tej kws kooj tshuab noj tsw taag,
tej kooj miv muab noj huvsw.
5Cov kws qaug cawv 'e,
ca le tswm dheev hab quaj,
cov kws nyam haus cawv txwv maab 'e,
ca le quaj nyav
tsua qhov cawv txwv maab qaab zwb
tu nrho ntawm mej lub qhov ncauj.
6Muaj ib haiv tuabneeg tuaj ua rog rua kuv lub tebchaws,
puab muaj zug heev hab muaj coob suav tsw txheeb,
puab tej kaug nav yog kaug nav tsuv ntxhuav,
puab tej los yuaj yog los yuaj maum tsuv ntxhuav.
7Puab muab kuv tej txwv maab ua pam taag,
hab muab kuv tej txwv cua ua puam tsuaj taag.
Puab muab tej txwv ntoo laws tawv pov tseg taag,
tseg tej kaav dawb paug ca.
8Ca le quaj ntsuag ib yaam nkaus le tug nkauj nyaab
kws naav khaub seev tsaaj quaj nwg tug quasyawg
kws yuav thaus tseed hluas.
9Tej qoob loos kws muab xyeem
hab tej cawv txwv maab kws laub xyeem
tu nrho ntawm Yawmsaub lub tuam tsev lawm.
Cov pov thawj kws ua koom rua Yawmsaub
kuj quaj ntsuag.
10Tej teb pam taag, tej aav kuj quaj ntsuag,
tsua qhov tej qoob raug ua puam tsuaj taag,
tej cawv txwv maab tshab tsw muaj lawm,
roj tu nrho lawm.
11Cov kws ua teb 'e, ca le poob sab nthaav,
cov kws tu txwv maab 'e, ca le quaj nyav,
vem tsw muaj mog tsw muaj qeb,
tej qoob loos huv teb raug puam tsuaj taag huvsw.
12Tej txwv maab kuj tuag tshaav,
tej txwv cua kuj qhuav taag.
Tej txwv ntsab pobkws, tej txwv toov laaj
hab tej txwv duaj,
hab tej txwv ntoo huvsw huv teb
kuj tuag tshaav taag.
Tej kev xyiv faab kuj pluj quas zug
ntawm tuabneeg moog lawm.
13Cov pov thawj 'e, ca le muab khaub seev tsaaj
lug naav hab quaj ntsuag,
cov kws ua num rua ntawm lub thaaj xyeem 'e,
ca le quaj nyav,
cov kws ua koom rua kuv tug Vaajtswv 'e,
ca le nkaag moog hab muab khaub seev tsaaj
lug naav ib mos kaaj ntug,
tsua qhov tej qoob loos kws xyeem
hab tej cawv txwv maab kws laub xyeem
tu ncua huv mej tug Vaajtswv lub tuam tsev lawm.
14Ca le tshaaj tawm kuas ua kevcai yoo mov,
ca le hu kuas tuaj txoos ua ke caiv su tag tag le,
ca le sau zog cov kev txwj quas laug
hab taag nrho cov pejxeem huv lub tebchaws suavdawg
tuaj rua huv mej tug Vaajtswv Yawmsaub lub tuam tsev
hab quaj thov Yawmsaub.
15Nub hov yuav txom nyem lauj!
Nub kws Yawmsaub teem ca lug ze lawm,
yog nub kws tug kws muaj fwjchim luj kawg nkaus⚓
ua kuas puam tsuaj.
16Tej zaub mov tsw raug muab txav tu nrho
ntawm peb xubndag lov?
Txujkev zoo sab hab kev xyiv faab tsw raug tu nrho
ntawm peb tug Vaajtswv lub tuam tsev lov?
17Tej noob qoob qhuav taag rua huv aav,
tej txhaab kuj khoob ntshuv.
Tej txhaab kuj pob taag
vem tsw tau qoob hlo le.
18Tej tsaj txhu quaj zum zawg xwb lauj!
Tej paab nyuj nkaag sws chaab sws chaws
vem tsw muaj tshaav zaub,
txawm yog tej paab yaaj
los kuj qaug zug zuj zwg.
19Au Yawmsaub, kuv tsaa suab thov koj,
vem yog suavtawg muab tej tshaav zaub
huv tebchaws moj saab qhua kub taag,
hab nplaim tawg kub tej ntoo huv teb
taag nrho huvsw.
20Txawm yog tej tsaj qus, los kuj quaj thov koj hab,
vem tej haav dej qhuav taag,
hab suavtawg muab tej tshaav zaub
huv tebchaws moj saab qhua kub taag.