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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 269, 26 September 2025   
      
   1) Joel 1,2,3 Malachi 1,2,3,4   
      
   Joel 1   
      
   1 (Jer 1:2; Ac 2:16) The word of the Lord, which came to Joel, son of Pethuel.   
      
   [1] The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.   
      
   A Land Laid Waste   
      
   2 (Hos 5:1; Joel 2:2) Hear this, elders,   
   and give ear, all inhabitants of the land!   
   Has anything like this happened in your days,   
   or in the days of your fathers?   
   3 Tell it to your children,   
   and let your children tell their children,   
   and let their children tell another generation.   
   4 (Joel 2:25; Am 4:9; Ex 10:4) What the fledging locust left,   
   the adult locust has eaten;   
   what the adult locust left,   
   the larval locust has eaten;   
   what the larval locust left,   
   the hopper locust has eaten.   
   5 Awaken, drunkards, and weep!   
   Wail, all wine-drinkers,   
   because the sweet wine   
   has been cut off from your lips.   
   6 (Joel 2:25) For a nation powerful and innumerable   
   has invaded my land;   
   its teeth are like the teeth of a lion,   
   like the fangs of a lioness.   
   7 (Isa 5:6; Joel 1:12) It has despoiled my vine,   
   and splintered my fig tree;   
   it has stripped off its bark   
   and cast it away,   
   leaving its branches white.   
   8 (Isa 22:12) Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth   
   for the husband of her youth.   
   9 (Joel 2:14; 2:17) The grain offering and the drink offering   
   are cut off from the house of the Lord;   
   the priests mourn, who are   
   ministers to the Lord.   
   10 (Jer 12:11; Hos 4:3) The field is ravaged,   
   the ground mourns;   
   for the grain is ruined,   
   the new wine is dried up,   
   and the oil dwindles.   
   11 (Isa 17:11; Jer 9:12) Despair, fieldworkers;   
   wail, vinedressers,   
   for the wheat and the barley,   
   because the harvest of the field has perished.   
   12 (Isa 24:11; SS 2:3) The vine is dried up,   
   and the fig tree is withered;   
   pomegranate, palm, and apple-   
   all the trees of the field are dry;   
   surely joy has withered away   
   from the sons of men.   
      
   [2] Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.   
   Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?   
   [3] Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children,   
   and their children another generation.   
   [4] 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.   
   [5] 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.   
   [6] 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.   
   [7] 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.   
   [8] Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.   
   [9] The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of   
   the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.   
   [10] The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new   
   wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.   
   [11] 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.   
   [12] 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.   
      
   A Call to Repentance   
      
   13 (Jer 4:8; Joel 1:8-9) Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests;   
   wail, ministers of the altar.   
   Come, spend the night in sackcloth,   
   ministers of my God,   
   because the grain offering and the drink offering   
   are withheld from the house of your God.   
   14 (Joel 2:15–16; Jnh 3:8) Consecrate a fast,   
   call a sacred assembly,   
   assemble the elders   
   and all the inhabitants of the land   
   to the house of the Lord your God,   
   and cry out to the Lord.   
   15 (Jer 30:7; Eze 7:2-12) Alas, for the day!   
   For the day of the Lord is near,   
   and like devastation from the Almighty it comes.   
   16 (Dt 12:6-7; Ps 43:4) Has not the food been cut off   
   before our eyes,   
   joy and gladness   
   from the house of our God?   
   17 The seeds have shriveled   
   under their shovels,   
   the storehouses have been deserted;   
   the granaries have been torn down,   
   because the grain has dried up.   
   18 (Jer 12:4; Hos 4:3) How the beasts groan!   
   The herds of cattle are confused,   
   because they have no pasture;   
   even the flocks of sheep suffer.   
   19 (Ps 50:15; Jer 9:10) To You, O Lord, I call,   
   because fire has devoured the wild pastures,   
   and flame has burned all the trees of the field.   
   20 (Ps 104:21; 1Ki 17:7) Even the beasts of the field long for You,   
   because the streams of water have dried up,   
   and fire has devoured the wild pastures.   
      
   [13] 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.   
   [14] 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,   
   [15] Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a   
   destruction from the Almighty shall it come.   
   [16] Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the   
   house of our God?   
   [17] The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate,   
   the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.   
   [18] How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because   
   they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.   
   [19] 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.   
   [20] 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.   
      
   Joel 2   
      
   The Day of the Lord   
      
   1 (Joel 1:15; 2:15) Blow the ram's horn in Zion,   
   sound the alarm on My holy mountain!   
   All the inhabitants of the earth will tremble,   
   because the day of the Lord has come,   
   because it is near-   
   2 (Joel 1:6; 2:25) a day of darkness and gloom,   
   a day of clouds and thick darkness.   
   Like blackness spreading over the mountain,   
   a great and mighty army comes,   
   such as was never before,   
   and will never be again,   
   even through the years of all generations.   
   3 (Ge 2:8; Isa 51:3) Before them fire devours,   
   and behind them a flame blazes;   
   the land is like the garden of Eden before them,   
   but behind them a desolate wasteland,   
   and nothing escapes them.   
   4 (Rev 9:7) They have the appearance of horses,   
   and like cavalry they run.   
   5 (Isa 5:24; Rev 9:9) As with the sound of chariots,   
   they leap on the mountaintops,   
   as with the sound of a flame of fire consuming stubble,   
   as a mighty army arrayed for war.   
      
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