Joel 第1章
1The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:
An Invasion of Locusts
give ear, 1:2 ver. 14all inhabitants of the land!
1:2 [ch. 2:2]Has such a thing happened in your days,
or in the days of your fathers?
and let your children tell their children,
and their children to another generation.
1:4 [Amos 7:1]; See Ex. 10:4the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
1:4 ch. 2:25; Ps. 105:34; Nah. 3:15the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
5Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
and 1:5 [Isa. 24:11] wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of 1:5 ch. 3:18; Isa. 49:26; Amos 9:13the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
1:6 ch. 2:2powerful and beyond number;
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
7It has laid waste my vine
and splintered my 1:7 [ver. 12]fig tree;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
their branches are made white.
for the bridegroom of her youth.
from the house of the Lord.
1:9 ch. 2:17; [Isa. 61:6; Ezek. 45:4]The priests mourn,
1:9 ch. 2:17; [Isa. 61:6; Ezek. 45:4]the ministers of the Lord.
10The fields are destroyed,
1:10 See Hos. 4:3the ground mourns,
because 1:10 [Hos. 2:9]the grain is destroyed,
1:10 [Hos. 2:9]the wine dries up,
the oil languishes.
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
1:11 ver. 17because the harvest of the field has perished.
12The vine dries up;
1:12 [ver. 7] the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and 1:12 Isa. 24:11; Jer. 48:33gladness dries up
from the children of man.
A Call to Repentance
1:13 [ver. 8; Mic. 1:8] wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, 1:13 [ver. 8; Jer. 4:8] pass the night in sackcloth,
1:13 [See ver. 9above] O ministers of my God!
are withheld from the house of your God.
141:14 ch. 2:15, 16; See 2 Chr. 20:3Consecrate a fast;
1:14 ch. 2:15, 16; See 2 Chr. 20:3call a solemn assembly.
Gather 1:14 ver. 2the elders
and 1:14 ver. 2all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
and cry out to the Lord.
15Alas for the day!
1:15 ch. 2:1, 11, 31; 3:14; Isa. 13:6, 9; Jer. 46:10; Ezek. 30:2, 3; Amos 5:18; Obad. 15; Zeph. 1:14, 15; Zech. 14:1; 2 Pet. 3:10For the day of the Lord is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty1:15 Destruction sounds like the Hebrew for Almighty it comes.
16Is not the food cut off
before our eyes,
1:16 [Deut. 12:6, 7; 16:14, 15]joy and gladness
from the house of our God?
the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
because 1:17 ver. 11the grain has dried up.
The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
even the flocks of sheep suffer.1:18 Or are made desolate
1:19 Jer. 9:10For fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness,
1:19 Jer. 9:10and flame has burned
all the trees of the field.
20Even the beasts of the field 1:20 [Job 38:41; Ps. 104:21; 145:15] pant for you
because the water brooks are dried up,
1:20 [See ver. 19above]and fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.
The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language. Used by permission. All rights reserved.