{"product_id":"2940148932444","title":"The World English Bible (WEB): Joel (Illustrated)","description":"1:1 The Word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:2 Hear this, you elders,\u003cbr\u003eAnd listen, all you inhabitants of the land.\u003cbr\u003eHas this ever happened in your days,\u003cbr\u003eor in the days of your fathers?\u003cbr\u003e1:3 Tell your children about it,\u003cbr\u003eand have your children tell their children,\u003cbr\u003eand their children, another generation.\u003cbr\u003e1:4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten.\u003cbr\u003eWhat the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten.\u003cbr\u003eWhat the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.\u003cbr\u003e1:5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!\u003cbr\u003eWail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine;\u003cbr\u003efor it is cut off from your mouth.\u003cbr\u003e1:6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number.\u003cbr\u003eHis teeth are the teeth of a lion,\u003cbr\u003eand he has the fangs of a lioness.\u003cbr\u003e1:7 He has laid my vine waste,\u003cbr\u003eand stripped my fig tree.\u003cbr\u003eHe has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.\u003cbr\u003eIts branches are made white.\u003cbr\u003e1:8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth! 1:9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house.\u003cbr\u003eThe priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.\u003cbr\u003e1:10 The field is laid waste.\u003cbr\u003eThe land mourns, for the grain is destroyed,\u003cbr\u003eThe new wine has dried up,\u003cbr\u003eand the oil languishes.\u003cbr\u003e1:11 Be confounded, you farmers!\u003cbr\u003eWail, you vineyard keepers;\u003cbr\u003efor the wheat and for the barley;\u003cbr\u003efor the harvest of the field has perished.\u003cbr\u003e1:12 The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered;\u003cbr\u003ethe pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,\u003cbr\u003eeven all of the trees of the field are withered;\u003cbr\u003efor joy has withered away from the sons of men.\u003cbr\u003e1:13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests!\u003cbr\u003eWail, you ministers of the altar.\u003cbr\u003eCome, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God,\u003cbr\u003efor the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.\u003cbr\u003e1:14 Sanctify a fast.\u003cbr\u003eCall a solemn assembly.\u003cbr\u003eGather the elders,\u003cbr\u003eand all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God,\u003cbr\u003eand cry to Yahweh.\u003cbr\u003e1:15 Alas for the day!\u003cbr\u003eFor the day of Yahweh is at hand,\u003cbr\u003eand it will come as destruction from the Almighty.\u003cbr\u003e1:16 Isn't the food cut off before our eyes;\u003cbr\u003ejoy and gladness from the house of our God?\u003cbr\u003e1:17 The seeds rot under their clods.\u003cbr\u003eThe granaries are laid desolate.\u003cbr\u003eThe barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.\u003cbr\u003e1:18 How the animals groan!\u003cbr\u003eThe herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture.\u003cbr\u003eYes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.\u003cbr\u003e1:19 Yahweh, I cry to you,\u003cbr\u003eFor the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,\u003cbr\u003eand the flame has burned all the trees of the field.\u003cbr\u003e1:20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you,\u003cbr\u003efor the water brooks have dried up,\u003cbr\u003eAnd the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084460179696,"sku":"2940148932444","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148932444_p0.jpg?v=1763710704","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148932444","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}