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Joel · read by Chuck Smith
45 verses, in order. Only the verses Chuck read aloud are shown.
Joel 1
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This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
Joel 2
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Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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"Yet even now," declares the LORD, "return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning."Read from KJV · Deliverance Shall Come
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So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.Read from KJV · Deliverance Shall Come
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Blow the ram's horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, "Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Then the LORD became jealous for His land, and He spared His people.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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And the LORD answered His people: "Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and by them you will be satisfied. I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Do not be afraid, O land; rejoice and be glad, for the LORD has done great things.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ezekiel 36-39
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And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.Read from KJV · Power to Be
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Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Ezekiel 36-39
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The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
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And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 1-2
Joel 3
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I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation." Indeed, the LORD has spoken.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 3
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Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong!'Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 3
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Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 3
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The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 3
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The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Revelation 10-12
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Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 3
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And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 3
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Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 3
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But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 3
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For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged. " For the LORD dwells in Zion.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Joel 3