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JOEL
- And cry unto the Lord,
- Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand,
- And as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
- Is not the meat cut off before our eyes,
- Yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
- The seed is rotten under their clods,
- The garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down;
- For the corn is withered.
- How do the beasts groan!
- The herds of cattle are perplexed,
- Because they have no pasture;
- Yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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;
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