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Joel Chapter 1

Joel
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Joel

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In this chapter the prophet Joel records God's judgment on Israel for their persistent sin and disobedience, which brings a severe drought and famine. The people are urged to repent and return to God, foretelling a future day when He will deliver them. The chapter emphasizes the seriousness of divine judgment and the hope of restoration.

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(1) The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
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Jeremiah 1:2Ezekiel 1:3Hosea 1:1II Peter 1:21Acts 2:16

(2) Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
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Psalms 49:1Isaiah 34:1Jeremiah 5:21Hosea 5:1Amos 3:1Amos 4:1Amos 5:1Micah 1:2Micah 3:1Micah 3:9Matthew 13:9Revelation 2:7

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33

(3) Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
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Exodus 10:1Exodus 10:2Exodus 13:14Deuteronomy 6:7Joshua 4:6Joshua 4:7Joshua 4:21Joshua 4:22Psalms 44:1Psalms 71:18Psalms 78:3Psalms 78:4

(4) That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
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Joel 2:25Amos 4:9Exodus 10:4Exodus 10:12Exodus 10:13Exodus 10:14Exodus 10:15Deuteronomy 28:38Deuteronomy 28:42I Kings 8:37II Chronicles 6:28II Chronicles 7:13

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Joel 2:25Genesis 41:21Leviticus 7:16Leviticus 11:47I Samuel 30:12Job 31:17

(5) Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
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Isaiah 24:7Isaiah 24:8Isaiah 24:9Isaiah 24:10Isaiah 24:11Amos 6:3Amos 6:4Amos 6:5Amos 6:6Amos 6:7Luke 21:34Luke 21:35

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Mark 2:22Matthew 9:17Numbers 6:3Nehemiah 2:1Nehemiah 13:15Proverbs 23:30

(6) For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
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Joel 2:2Joel 2:3Joel 2:4Joel 2:5Joel 2:6Joel 2:7Joel 2:8Joel 2:9Joel 2:10Joel 2:11Joel 2:25Proverbs 30:25

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Proverbs 30:14Job 4:10Psalms 58:6Revelation 9:8Jeremiah 5:15Psalms 57:4

(7) He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
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Joel 1:12Exodus 10:15Psalms 105:33Isaiah 5:6Isaiah 24:7Jeremiah 8:13Hosea 2:12Habakkuk 3:17

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Joel 1:12Nehemiah 8:15Isaiah 34:4Isaiah 41:19Ezekiel 17:24Joel 2:22

(8) Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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Joel 1:13Joel 1:14Joel 1:15Joel 2:12Joel 2:13Joel 2:14Isaiah 22:12Isaiah 24:7Isaiah 24:8Isaiah 24:9Isaiah 24:10Isaiah 24:11

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Romans 7:2Ezekiel 32:16

(9) The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
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Joel 1:13Joel 1:16Joel 2:14Hosea 9:4Joel 2:17Lamentations 1:4Lamentations 1:16Exodus 28:1II Chronicles 13:10Isaiah 61:6

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II Kings 16:15Joel 1:13

(10) The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
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Joel 1:17Joel 1:18Joel 1:19Joel 1:20Leviticus 26:20Isaiah 24:3Isaiah 24:4Jeremiah 12:4Jeremiah 12:11Jeremiah 14:2Jeremiah 14:3Jeremiah 14:4

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II Chronicles 31:5Mark 2:22Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5Exodus 22:6

(11) Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
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Jeremiah 14:3Jeremiah 14:4Romans 5:5Isaiah 17:11Jeremiah 9:12

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Ruth 2:23Genesis 23:17Genesis 30:14Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5Exodus 23:16

(12) The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
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Joel 1:10Habakkuk 3:17Habakkuk 3:18Numbers 13:23Psalms 92:12Song of Solomon 2:3Song of Solomon 4:13Song of Solomon 7:7Song of Solomon 7:8Song of Solomon 7:9Joel 1:16Psalms 4:7

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Ezekiel 17:24Isaiah 41:19Genesis 2:9Matthew 12:33Matthew 21:19Romans 11:24

(13) Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
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Joel 1:8Joel 1:9Joel 2:17Jeremiah 4:8Jeremiah 9:10Ezekiel 7:18I Corinthians 9:13Hebrews 7:13Hebrews 7:14II Samuel 12:16I Kings 21:27Jonah 3:5

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Isaiah 8:9Jeremiah 4:8Jeremiah 49:3II Corinthians 11:15I Kings 10:5II Kings 16:15

(14) Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
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Joel 2:15Joel 2:16II Chronicles 20:3II Chronicles 20:4Leviticus 23:36Nehemiah 8:18Deuteronomy 29:10Deuteronomy 29:11II Chronicles 20:13Nehemiah 9:2Nehemiah 9:3Jonah 3:8

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Joel 2:15Joel 2:16Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Zechariah 8:19

(15) Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
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Joel 2:2Jeremiah 30:7Amos 5:16Amos 5:17Amos 5:18Joel 2:1Psalms 37:13Isaiah 13:6Isaiah 13:7Isaiah 13:8Isaiah 13:9Ezekiel 7:2

(16) Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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Joel 1:5Joel 1:6Joel 1:7Joel 1:8Joel 1:9Joel 1:13Amos 4:6Amos 4:7Deuteronomy 12:6Deuteronomy 12:7Deuteronomy 12:11Deuteronomy 12:12

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II Kings 16:15Isaiah 35:10Isaiah 51:11Isaiah 9:3

(17) The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
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Genesis 23:16

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Ezekiel 6:6Ezekiel 29:12Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26Ecclesiastes 12:6Isaiah 8:9

(18) How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
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Joel 1:20I Kings 18:5Jeremiah 12:4Jeremiah 14:5Jeremiah 14:6Hosea 4:3Romans 8:22

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Genesis 47:17Genesis 30:32Genesis 30:40Genesis 46:32Exodus 12:38Leviticus 26:22

(19) O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
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Psalms 50:15Psalms 91:15Micah 7:7Habakkuk 3:17Habakkuk 3:18Luke 18:1Luke 18:7Philippians 4:6Philippians 4:7Joel 2:3Jeremiah 9:10Amos 7:4

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Joel 1:20Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 10:15Exodus 22:5Isaiah 32:15

(20) The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
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Job 38:41Psalms 104:21Psalms 145:15Psalms 147:9I Kings 17:7I Kings 18:5

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Joel 1:19Isaiah 43:20Ezekiel 31:4Ezekiel 29:5Joel 2:22Genesis 1:6

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