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The worde of the Lord that came to Ioel the sonne of Pethuel.
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Heare ye this, O Elders, and hearken ye all inhabitantes of the land, whether such a thing hath bene in your dayes, or yet in the dayes of your fathers.
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Tell you your children of it, and let your children shew to their children, and their children to another generation.
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That which is left of ye palmer worme, hath the grashopper eaten, and the residue of ye grashopper hath the canker worme eaten, and the residue of the canker worme hath the caterpiller eaten.
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Awake ye drunkards, and weepe, and howle all ye drinkers of wine, because of the newe for it shalbe pulled from your mouth.
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Yea, a nation commeth vpon my lande, mightie, and without nomber, whose teeth are like the teeth of a lyon, and he hath the iawes of a great lyon.
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He maketh my vine waste, and pilleth off the barke of my figge he maketh it bare, and casteth it ye branches therof are made white.
A Call to Mourning
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Mourne like a virgine girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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The meate offring, and the drinke offring is cut off from the House of the the Priests the Lords ministers mourne.
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The fielde is the lande for the corne is the new wine is dried vp, and the oyle is decayed.
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Be ye ashamed, O husband howle, O ye vine dressers for the wheate, and for the barly, because the haruest of the fielde is perished.
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The vine is dried vp, and the figge tree is the pomegranate tree and the palme tree, and the apple tree, euen all the trees of the fielde are surely the ioy is withered away from the sonnes of men.
A Call to Repentance
(Amos 5:4–15; Zephaniah 2:1–3; Luke 13:1–5)
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Girde your selues and lament, ye howle ye ministers of the come, and lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my for the meate offring, and the drinke offring is taken away from the house of your God.
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Sanctifie you a call a solemne gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the House of the Lord your God, and cry vnto the Lord,
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for the day, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and it commeth as a destruction from the Almightie.
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Is not the meate cut off before our eyes? and ioy, and gladnesse from the house of our God?
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The seede is rotten vnder their the garners are the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered.
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How did the beasts mourne! the herdes of cattel pine away, because they haue no pasture, and the flockes of sheepe are destroyed.
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O Lord, to thee will I for the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernesse, and the flame hath burnt vp all the trees of the fielde.
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The beasts of the fielde cry also vnto for the riuers of waters are dried vp, and the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernes.