{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/joel/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:41:39.030Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Joel","bookSlug":"joel","chapter":1,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":3,"totalVerses":20},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear this, you old men, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land.  Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Tell you your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust has left has the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left has the caterpillar eaten."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For a nation is come up on my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bore, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Be you ashamed, O you farmers; howl, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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 to the LORD,"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"The beasts of the field cry also to you: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness."}],"citation":{"inline":"Joel 1 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Joel 1](https://primebible.com/akjv/joel/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/joel/1 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}