1The LORD’s1:1 When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name. word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
2Hear this, you elders,
3Tell your children about it,
4What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten.
5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
6For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number.
7He has laid my vine waste,
8Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth
9The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house.
10The field is laid waste.
11Be confounded, you farmers!
12The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered—
13Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests!
14Sanctify a fast.
15Alas for the day!
16Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes,
17The seeds rot under their clods.
18How the animals groan!
19LORD, I cry to you,
20Yes, the animals of the field pant to you,