WEBVTT 00:00.680 --> 00:01.940 Joel, chapter 1. 00:02.420 --> 00:04.940 The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Bethuel. 00:30.000 --> 00:34.280 And howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off 00:34.280 --> 00:34.820 from your mouth. 00:35.260 --> 00:39.500 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number, whose teeth are 00:39.500 --> 00:42.580 the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek-teeth of a great lion. 00:42.960 --> 00:45.540 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree. 00:45.940 --> 00:47.940 He hath made it clean bare, and cast it away. 00:48.440 --> 00:52.540 The branches thereof are made white, lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth 00:52.540 --> 00:53.760 for the husband of her youth. 00:54.140 --> 00:57.080 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord. 00:57.240 --> 00:59.460 The priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn. 00:59.460 --> 01:01.860 The field is wasted, the land mourneth. 01:02.120 --> 01:06.660 For the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes. 01:07.220 --> 01:11.820 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen, howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and 01:11.820 --> 01:14.760 for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished. 01:15.220 --> 01:17.900 The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languishes. 01:18.380 --> 01:23.140 The pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of 01:23.140 --> 01:27.520 the field, are withered, because joy is withered away from the sons of men. 01:28.180 --> 01:29.980 Gird yourselves and lament, ye priests. 01:30.400 --> 01:32.020 Howl, ye ministers of the altar. 01:32.580 --> 01:36.700 Come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God, for the meat 01:36.700 --> 01:39.680 offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. 01:40.620 --> 01:45.580 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the 01:45.580 --> 01:49.760 inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord, 01:50.240 --> 01:51.160 Alas for the day! 01:51.520 --> 01:55.040 For the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty 01:55.040 --> 01:55.900 shall it come. 01:56.260 --> 02:00.840 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, ye joy and gladness from the house of our 02:00.840 --> 02:01.120 God? 02:01.600 --> 02:03.780 The seed is rotten under their clothes. 02:04.400 --> 02:05.520 The garners are laid desolate. 02:05.960 --> 02:08.520 The barns are broken down, for the corn is withered. 02:09.160 --> 02:10.820 How do the beasts groan? 02:11.140 --> 02:14.620 The herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture, ye the 02:14.620 --> 02:15.880 flocks of sheep are made desolate. 02:16.420 --> 02:20.140 O Lord, to thee will I cry, for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the 02:20.140 --> 02:23.140 wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. 02:23.140 --> 02:27.760 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee, for the rivers of waters are dried 02:27.760 --> 02:30.900 up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. 02:34.510 --> 02:36.490 This concludes Disc Number 46.