Category: Joel

American Standard Version (ASV):
Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.

King James Version (KJV):
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.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.

King James Version (KJV):
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.

American Standard Version (ASV):
The vine is withered, 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: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.

King James Version (KJV):
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.

American Standard Version (ASV):
The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

King James Version (KJV):
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

American Standard Version (ASV):
The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.

King James Version (KJV):
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’S ministers, mourn.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

King James Version (KJV):
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

American Standard Version (ASV):
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.

King James Version (KJV):
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.

American Standard Version (ASV):
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

King James Version (KJV):
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.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

King James Version (KJV):
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.

American Standard Version (ASV):
That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.

King James Version (KJV):
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.