{"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/drb/joel/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:03:45.974Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","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 Phatuel. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers? "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking 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 like the teeth of a lion: and his cheek teeth as of a lion's whelp. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He hath laid my vineyard waste, and hath pilled off the bark of my fig tree: he hath stripped it 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":"Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned: "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of your God. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly; gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord: "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Why did the beast groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"To thee, 0 Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness, and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the country. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Yea and the beasts of the field have looked up to thee, as a garden bed that thirsteth after rain, for the springs of waters are dried up, and fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Joel 1 (DRB)","markdown":"[Joel 1](https://primebible.com/drb/joel/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/joel/1 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}