요엘 1장 [NIV]

요엘 1장 [KJV]

1. 1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.

   1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

2. 2 Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your forefathers?

   2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

3. 3 Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

   3 Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.

4. 4 What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten.

   4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

5. 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips.

   5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

6. 6 A nation has invaded my land, powerful and without number; it has the teeth of a lion, the fangs of a lioness.

   6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

7. 7 It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white.

   7 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.

8. 8 Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the husband of her youth.

   8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

9. 9 Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

   9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

10. 10 The fields are ruined, the ground is dried up; the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil fails.

    10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

11. 11 Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed.

    11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

12. 12 The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree--all the trees of the field--are dried up. Surely the joy of mankind is withered away.

    12 The vine is dried up, 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: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

13. 13 Put on sackcloth, O priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

    13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

14. 14 Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

    14 Sanctify ye 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. 15 Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.

    15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

16. 16 Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes--joy and gladness from the house of our God?

    16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God?

17. 17 The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.

    17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

18. 18 How the cattle moan! The herds mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

    18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

19. 19 To you, O LORD, I call, for fire has devoured the open pastures and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.

    19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

20. 20 Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up and fire has devoured the open pastures.

    20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.