Joel in the Septuagint
Read Joel in Greek and English from Brenton's Septuagint. Choose a chapter to see each source's text and verse labels.
Opening of Joel
1 The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Bathuel.
2 Hear these words , ye elders, and hearken all ye that inhabit the land. Have such things happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell your children concerning them, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
4 The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.
5 Awake, ye drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness are removed from your mouth.
6 For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion's teeth, and their back teeth those of a lion's whelp.
7 He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched my vine , and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.
8 Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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