Joel 1
KJ3 Literal Translation — Chapter 1 of 3
Chapter Summary
Israel mourns over the judgments of Jehovah.
Key Hebrew Words
People & Context
The God whose word comes to Joel; His house lacks offerings and His day of destruction is declared at hand.
Prophet, son of Pethuel, who receives Jehovah's word and summons the land to mourn and fast over the locust ruin.
Father of Joel, named only to identify the prophet in the opening verse.
Ministers of Jehovah and of the altar, called to mourn, gird in sackcloth, and lament the cut-off offerings.
Old men summoned to hear, to consider an unprecedented disaster, and to gather the land into Jehovah's house.
Timeline
**A devastating wave of swarming, cutting, and stripping locusts consumes the vegetation**, leaving nothing behind for the next generation .
Joel 1:1-4Drunkards, farmers, and priests are commanded to wail and howl . This mourning is necessary because **the harvests have perished and the food and drink offerings are cut off from the house of Jehovah** .
Joel 1:5-13The elders and inhabitants are instructed to **gather at the house of Jehovah for a fast and solemn assembly** . They must cry out to God because fire has devoured the pastures and the beasts groan from starvation .
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