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\v 1 I am Joel son of Pethuel. This is a message that Yahweh gave to me.
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\q1
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\v 2 You leaders of Israel, and everyone else who lives in this country, listen to this message!
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\q2 Nothing like this has ever happened during the time that we have lived
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\q2 or during the time when our ancestors lived.
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\q1
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\v 3 Tell your children about it,
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\q2 and tell your children to tell it to their children,
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\q2 and tell your grandchildren to tell it to their children.
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\q1
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\v 4 I am talking about the locusts that have eaten our crops.
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\q2 The first swarm of locusts came and cut many of the leaves of the crops;
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\q1 then another swarm came and ate the rest of the leaves,
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\q2 then another swarm came hopping along,
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\q1 and finally another swarm came
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\q2 and they destroyed everything else.
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\q1
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\v 5 You people who are drunk, wake up!
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\q2 Wake up and wail loudly,
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\q1 because all the grapes are ruined,
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\q2 and so there will be no new wine!
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\q1
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\v 6 Huge swarms of locusts have entered our country.
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\q2 They are like a powerful army
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\q1 that has very many soldiers;
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\q2 no one can count them.
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\q1 The locusts have teeth that are as sharp as the teeth of lions!
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\q1
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\v 7 They have destroyed our grapevines and our fig trees
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\q2 by stripping off and eating all the bark,
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\q2 with the result that the branches are white and bare.
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\q1
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\v 8 Cry and wail as a young woman does
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\q2 when the young man to whom she was engaged has died.
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\q1
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\v 9 There is no more flour or wine for us to offer to be sacrifices at the temple,
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\q2 so the priests who serve Yahweh are mourning.
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\q1
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\v 10 The crops in the fields have been ruined;
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\q2 it is as though the ground itself had died.
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\q1 The grain has been destroyed,
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\q2 there are no grapes to make wine,
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\q2 and there is no more olive oil.
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\q1
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\v 11 You farmers, grieve!
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\q2 You who take care of grapevines, wail,
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\q1 because the grain has been destroyed;
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\q2 there is no wheat or barley growing.
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\q1
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\v 12 The grapevines and the fig trees have withered,
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\q2 and the pomegranate trees, palm trees, and apricot trees have also dried up.
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\q1 The people are no longer joyful.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 13 You priests, put on rough sack clothes and wail.
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\q2 You who serve God by offering sacrifices on the altar,
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\q1 wear those sack clothes all night to show that you are mourning,
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\q2 because there is no flour or wine to be offered at the temple of your God.
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\q1
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\v 14 Set apart a day for when the people should go without food.
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\q1 Tell the leaders and the other people to gather at the temple
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\q2 and to cry out to Yahweh there.
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\q1
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\v 15 Terrible things are happening to us!
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\q2 It will soon be the time when Yahweh, who is the Almighty God, will punish us,
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\q2 when he will cause us to experience more disasters.
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\v 16 Our crops are already gone,
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\q2 and no one is rejoicing at all at the temple of our God.
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\q1
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\v 17 When we plant seeds, they do not grow;
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\q1 they dry up in the ground,
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\q2 so there are no crops to harvest.
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\q1 Our barns are empty;
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\q2 there is no grain to store in them.
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\q1
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\v 18 Our cattle groan, searching for a pasture with some grass to eat,
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\q2 and the sheep bleat because they are suffering.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 19 Yahweh, I cry out to you,
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\q2 because our pastures and our forests have dried up in the hot sunshine.
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\q1
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\v 20 It is as though even the wild animals cry out to you
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\q2 because all the streams have dried up.
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\q2 The dryness is like a fire burning up the wilderness pastures.
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