These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Joel 1
Tanakh 20 verses
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The of that came to the son of Pethuel.
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- 2 Hear this, ye old men, And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, Or in the days of your fathers?
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Tell ye your children of it, And let your children tell their children, And their children another generation.
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- 4 That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; And that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; And that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
- 5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, And wail, all ye drinkers of wine, Because of the sweet wine, For it is cut off from your mouth.
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For a people is come up upon my land, Mighty, and without number; His teeth are the teeth of a lion, And he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.
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He hath laid my vine waste, And blasted my fig-tree; He hath made it bare, and cast it down, The branches thereof are made white.
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- 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the husband of her youth.
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The meal- and the drink- is cut off From the house of ; The priests mourn, Even Yahweh’S ministers.
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- 10 The field is wasted, The land mourneth; For the corn is wasted, The new wine is dried up, The oil languisheth.
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Be ashamed, O ye husbandmen, Wail, O ye vinedressers, For the wheat and for the barley; Because the harvest of the field is perished.
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- 12 The vine is withered, 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; For joy is withered away from the sons of men.
- 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests, Wail, ye ministers of the ; Come, lie all night in sackcloth, Ye ministers of my ; For the meal- and the drink- is withholden From the house of your .
- 14 Sanctify ye a fast, Call a solemn , Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land Unto the house of your , And cry unto .
- 15 Alas for the day! For the day of is at hand, And as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
- 16 Is not the food cut off Before our eyes, Yea, joy and gladness From the house of our ?
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The grains shrivel under their hoes; The garners are laid desolate, The barns are broken down; For the corn is withered.
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How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed, Because they have no pasture; Yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
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Unto Thee, O , do I cry; For the fire hath devoured The pastures of the wilderness, And the flame hath set ablaze All the trees of the field.
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Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto Thee; For the water brooks are dried up, And the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
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