{ "translation": { "id": "dra", "name": "Douay-Rheims 1899 (Catholic)" }, "book": { "id": "JOL", "name": "Joel", "chapterCount": 3 }, "chapters": [ { "chapter": 1, "verses": [ { "n": 1, "t": "The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Phatuel." }, { "n": 2, "t": "Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?" }, { "n": 3, "t": "Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation." }, { "n": 4, "t": "That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed." }, { "n": 5, "t": "Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth." }, { "n": 6, "t": "For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number: his teeth are like the teeth of a lion: and his cheek teeth as of a lion’s whelp." }, { "n": 7, "t": "He hath laid my vineyard waste, and hath pilled off the bark of my fig tree: he hath stripped it bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white." }, { "n": 8, "t": "Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth." }, { "n": 9, "t": "Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord’s ministers, have mourned:" }, { "n": 10, "t": "The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished." }, { "n": 11, "t": "The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished." }, { "n": 12, "t": "The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men." }, { "n": 13, "t": "Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of your God." }, { "n": 14, "t": "Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly; gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:" }, { "n": 15, "t": "Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty." }, { "n": 16, "t": "Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?" }, { "n": 17, "t": "The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded." }, { "n": 18, "t": "Why did the beast groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished." }, { "n": 19, "t": "To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness, and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the country." }, { "n": 20, "t": "Yea and the beasts of the field have looked up to thee, as a garden bed that thirsteth after rain, for the springs of waters are dried up, and fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness." } ] }, { "chapter": 2, "verses": [ { "n": 1, "t": "Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: because the day of the Lord cometh, because it is nigh at hand," }, { "n": 2, "t": "A day of darkness, and of gloominess, a day of clouds and whirlwinds: a numerous and strong people as the morning spread upon the mountains: the like to it hath not been from the beginning, nor shall be after it even to the years of generation and generation." }, { "n": 3, "t": "Before the face thereof a devouring fire, and behind it a burning flame: the land is like a garden of pleasure before it, and behind it a desolate wilderness, neither is there any one that can escape it." }, { "n": 4, "t": "The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and they shall run like horsemen." }, { "n": 5, "t": "They shall leap like the noise of chariots upon the tops of mountains, like the noise of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, as a strong people prepared to battle." }, { "n": 6, "t": "At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle." }, { "n": 7, "t": "They shall run like valiant men: like men of war they shall scale the wall: the men shall march every one on his way, and they shall not turn aside from their ranks." }, { "n": 8, "t": "No one shall press upon his brother: they shall walk every one in his path: yea, and they shall fall through the windows, and shall take no harm." }, { "n": 9, "t": "They shall enter into the city: they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up the houses, they shall come in at the windows as a thief." }, { "n": 10, "t": "At their presence the earth hath trembled, the heavens are moved: the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining." }, { "n": 11, "t": "And the Lord hath uttered his voice before the face of his army: for his armies are exceeding great, for they are strong and execute his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible: and who can stand it?" }, { "n": 12, "t": "Now therefore saith the Lord: Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning." }, { "n": 13, "t": "And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, patient and rich in mercy, and ready to repent of the evil." }, { "n": 14, "t": "Who knoweth but he will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing behind him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your God?" }, { "n": 15, "t": "Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly," }, { "n": 16, "t": "Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of her bride chamber." }, { "n": 17, "t": "Between the porch and the altar the priests the Lord’s ministers shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?" }, { "n": 18, "t": "The Lord hath been zealous for his land, and hath spared his people." }, { "n": 19, "t": "And the Lord answered and said to his people: Behold I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be filled with them: and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations." }, { "n": 20, "t": "And I will remove far off from you the northern enemy: and I will drive him into a land unpassable, and desert, with his face towards the east sea, and his hinder part towards the utmost sea: and his stench shall ascend, and his rottenness shall go up, because he hath done proudly." }, { "n": 21, "t": "Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice: for the Lord hath done great things." }, { "n": 22, "t": "Fear not, ye beasts of the fields: for the beautiful places of the wilderness are sprung, for the tree hath brought forth its fruit, the fig tree, and the vine have yielded their strength." }, { "n": 23, "t": "And you, O children of Sion, rejoice, and be joyful in the Lord your God: because he hath given you a teacher of justice, and he will make the early and the latter rain to come down to you as in the beginning." }, { "n": 24, "t": "And the floors shall be filled with wheat, and the presses shall overflow with wine and oil." }, { "n": 25, "t": "And I will restore to you the ears which the locust, and the bruchus, and the mildew, and the palmerworm have eaten; my great host which I sent upon you." }, { "n": 26, "t": "And you shall eat in plenty, and shall be filled: and you shall praise the name of the Lord your God, who hath done wonders with you, and my people shall not be confounded for ever." }, { "n": 27, "t": "And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: and I am the Lord your God, and there is none besides: and my people shall not be confounded for ever." }, { "n": 28, "t": "And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions." }, { "n": 29, "t": "Moreover upon my servants and handmaids in those days I will pour forth my spirit." }, { "n": 30, "t": "And I will shew wonders in heaven; and in earth, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke." }, { "n": 31, "t": "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood: before the great and dreadful day of the Lord doth come." }, { "n": 32, "t": "And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved: for in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem shall be salvation, as the Lord hath said, and in the residue whom the Lord shall call." } ] }, { "chapter": 3, "verses": [ { "n": 1, "t": "For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem:" }, { "n": 2, "t": "I will gather together all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land." }, { "n": 3, "t": "And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink." }, { "n": 4, "t": "But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head." }, { "n": 5, "t": "For you have taken away my silver and my gold: and my desirable and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples." }, { "n": 6, "t": "And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far off from their own country." }, { "n": 7, "t": "Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads." }, { "n": 8, "t": "And I will sell your sons, and your daughters by the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far off, for the Lord hath spoken it." }, { "n": 9, "t": "Proclaim ye this among the nations: prepare war, rouse up the strong: let them come, let all the men of war come up." }, { "n": 10, "t": "Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong." }, { "n": 11, "t": "Break forth, and come, all ye nations, from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down." }, { "n": 12, "t": "Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about." }, { "n": 13, "t": "Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is multiplied." }, { "n": 14, "t": "Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction." }, { "n": 15, "t": "The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining." }, { "n": 16, "t": "And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel." }, { "n": 17, "t": "And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall pass through it no more." }, { "n": 18, "t": "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweetness, and the hills shall flow with milk: and waters shall flow through all the rivers of Juda: and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the torrent of thorns." }, { "n": 19, "t": "Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have shed innocent blood in their land." }, { "n": 20, "t": "And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to generation and generation." }, { "n": 21, "t": "And I will cleanse their blood which I had not cleansed: and the Lord will dwell in Sion." } ] } ], "exportedAt": "2026-09-06T16:29:45.107Z", "source": "https://quillin.org" }