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Joel 1

1 A prophecie against the Jewes. 2 He exhorteth the people to prayer, and fasting for the miserie that was at hand.
1.The word of the Lord that came to Joél the son of Pethuél.
2.Hear ye this, ô aElders, and hearken ye all inhabitants of the land, whether bsuch a thing hath been in your dayes, or yet in the dayes of your fathers.
3.Tell you your children of it, and let your children shewe to their children, and their children to another generacion.
4.That which is left of the palmer worm, hath the grashopper eaten, & the residue of the grashopper hath the canker worm eaten, and the residue of the canker worm hath the caterpiller eaten.
5.Awake ye cdrunkardes, & weep, & houle all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine: for it shalbe pulled from your mouth.
6.Yea, da nation cometh upon my land, mightie, and without nomber, whose teeth are like the teeth of a lyon, and he hath the jaws of a great lyon.
7.He maketh my vine waste, and pilleth off the bark of my figtre: he maketh it bare, and casteth it down: the branches thereof are made white.
8.Mourn like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the housband of eher youth.
9.The meat offering, and the drink offering is fcut off from the House of the Lord: the Priests the Lord’s ministers mourn.
10.The field is wasted: the land mourneth: for the corn is destroyed: gthe new wine is dryed up, and the oil is decayed.
11.Be ye ashamed, ô housband men: houle, ô ye vine dressers for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.
12.The vine is dryed up, and the figtre is decayed: the pomegranate tre and the palm tre, and the apple tre, even all the trees of the field are withered: surely the joy is withered away from the sons of men.
13.hGird your selves and lament, ye Priests: houle ye ministers of the altar: come, and lye all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering, and the drink offering is taken away from the House of your God.
14.Sanctify you a fast: call a solemn assembly: gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the House of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,
15.Alas: for the day, for the iday of the Lord is at hand, and it cometh as a destruction from the Almighty.
16.Is not the meat cut off before our eyes? and joy, and gladness ÉL from the House of our God?
17.The seed is rotten under their clods: the garners are destroyed: the barns are broken down, for the corn is withered.
18.How did the beasts mourn? the herds of cattle pine away, because they have no pasture, & the flocks of sheep are destroyed.
19.O Lord, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burnt up all the trees of the field.
20.The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dryed up, and the kfire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Notes

2-a.
Signifying, the Princes, the Priests, and the governors.
2-b.
He calls the Jews to the consideration of God’s judgements, who had now plagued the fruits of the ground for the space of four year, which was for their sins, and to call them to repentance.
5-c.
Meaning, that the occasion of their excess and drunkenness was taken away.
6-d.
This was another plague wherewith God had punished them, when he stirred up the Assyrians against them.
8-e.
Mourn grievously as a woman, which has lost her husband, to whom she has been married in her youth.
9-f.
The tokens of God’s wrath did appear in his Temple in so much, as God’s service was left off.
10-g.
All comfort and substance for nourishment is taken away.
13-h.
He shows that the only means to avoid God’s wrath, and to have all things restored is unfeigned repentance.
15-i.
We see by these great plagues that utter destruction is at hand.
20-k.
That is, drought.