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Joel · read by Richard Owen Roberts
49 verses, in order. Only the verses Richard 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 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.Read from ESV · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
Joel 2
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Blow the ram's horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland— surely nothing will escape them.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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They do not jostle one another; each proceeds in his path. They burst through the defenses, never breaking ranks.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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"Yet even now," declares the LORD, "return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning."Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him— grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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Blow the ram's horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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Then the LORD became jealous for His land, and He spared His people.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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Do not be afraid, O land; rejoice and be glad, for the LORD has done great things.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — My great army that I sent against you.Read from NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1:2 Repentance Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Joel 1-2: Repentance & Revival
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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 NASB1995 · Acts 3 - Times of Refreshing
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Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.Read from NASB1995 · Acts 3 - Times of Refreshing