{"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/asv/joel/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T08:18:46.372Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"Joel","bookSlug":"joel","chapter":1,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":3,"totalVerses":20},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, 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 meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Gird yourselves with sackcloth , and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea , joy and gladness from the house of our God?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness."}],"citation":{"inline":"Joel 1 (ASV)","markdown":"[Joel 1](https://primebible.com/asv/joel/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/joel/1 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}