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diff --git a/8029.txt b/8029.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d13257d --- /dev/null +++ b/8029.txt @@ -0,0 +1,664 @@ +Project Gutenberg EBook The Bible, King James, Book 29: Joel + +Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the +copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing +this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. + +This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project +Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the +header without written permission. + +Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the +eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is +important information about your specific rights and restrictions in +how the file may be used. 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Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your + fathers? + +29:001:003 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their + children, and their children another generation. + +29:001:004 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. + +29:001:005 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. + +29:001:006 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. + +29:001:007 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. + +29:001:008 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of + her youth. + +29:001:009 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the + house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. + +29:001:010 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is + wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. + +29:001:011 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. + +29:001:012 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. + +29:001:013 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. + +29:001:014 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, + +29:001:015 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a + destruction from the Almighty shall it come. + +29:001:016 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness + from the house of our God? + +29:001:017 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid + desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. + +29:001:018 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, + because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are + made desolate. + +29:001:019 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. + +29:001:020 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. + +29:002:001 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy + mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the + day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; + +29:002:002 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of + thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a + great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, + neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many + generations. + +29:002:003 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: + the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them + a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. + +29:002:004 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as + horsemen, so shall they run. + +29:002:005 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they + leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the + stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. + +29:002:006 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces + shall gather blackness. + +29:002:007 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like + men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and + they shall not break their ranks: + +29:002:008 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in + his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be + wounded. + +29:002:009 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the + wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in + at the windows like a thief. + +29:002:010 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: + the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall + withdraw their shining: + +29:002:011 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his + camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: + for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who + can abide it? + +29:002:012 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with + all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with + mourning: + +29:002:013 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the + LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, + and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. + +29:002:014 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing + behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the + LORD your God? + +29:002:015 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn + assembly: + +29:002:016 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the + elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: + let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out + of her closet. + +29:002:017 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the + porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O + LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the + heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among + the people, Where is their God? + +29:002:018 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his + people. + +29:002:019 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I + will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be + satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach + among the heathen: + +29:002:020 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will + drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face + toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost + sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall + come up, because he hath done great things. + +29:002:021 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do + great things. + +29:002:022 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the + wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig + tree and the vine do yield their strength. + +29:002:023 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD + your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, + and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former + rain, and the latter rain in the first month. + +29:002:024 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall + overflow with wine and oil. + +29:002:025 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath + eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the + palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. + +29:002:026 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the + name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with + you: and my people shall never be ashamed. + +29:002:027 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I + am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never + be ashamed. + +29:002:028 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my + spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall + prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men + shall see visions: + +29:002:029 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those + days will I pour out my spirit. + +29:002:030 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, + blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. + +29:002:031 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into + blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come. + +29:002:032 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the + name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in + Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in + the remnant whom the LORD shall call. + +29:003:001 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall + bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, + +29:003:002 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into + the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for + my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered + among the nations, and parted my land. + +29:003:003 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy + for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might + drink. + +29:003:004 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and + all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? + and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return + your recompence upon your own head; + +29:003:005 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried + into your temples my goodly pleasant things: + +29:003:006 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have + ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from + their border. + +29:003:007 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have + sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: + +29:003:008 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of + the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the + Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. + +29:003:009 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the + mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come + up: + +29:003:010 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into + spears: let the weak say, I am strong. + +29:003:011 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather + yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones + to come down, O LORD. + +29:003:012 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of + Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen + round about. + +29:003:013 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you + down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their + wickedness is great. + +29:003:014 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day + of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. + +29:003:015 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall + withdraw their shining. + +29:003:016 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from + Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the + LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the + children of Israel. + +29:003:017 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, + my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there + shall no strangers pass through her any more. + +29:003:018 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains + shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, + and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a + fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and + shall water the valley of Shittim. + +29:003:019 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate + wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, + because they have shed innocent blood in their land. + +29:003:020 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation + to generation. + +29:003:021 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for + the LORD dwelleth in Zion. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, KING JAMES, BOOK 29 *** + +********** This file should be named 8029.txt or 8029.zip ********** + +This eBook was produced by David Widger +See above the credits to previous producers of this text. + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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