Joel 1

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	NOVA VULGATA
1 The word of the LORD which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.	1 Verbum Domini, quod factum est ad loel filium Phatuel.
2 Hear this, you elders! Pay attention, all you who dwell in the land! Has the like of this happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?	2 Audite hoc, senes, et auribus percipite, omnes habitatores terrae, si factum est istud in diebus vestris aut in diebus patrum vestrorum.
3 Tell it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the next generation.	3 Super hoc filiis vestris narrate, et filii vestri filiis suis, et filii eorum generationi alterae.
4 What the cutter left, the locust swarm has eaten; What the locust swarm left, the grasshopper has eaten; And what the grasshopper left, the devourer has eaten.	4 Residuum erucae comedit locusta, et residuum locustae comedit bruchus, et residuum bruchi comedit gryllus.
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, Because the juice of the grape will be withheld from your mouths.	5 Expergiscimini, ebrii, et flete, et ululate, omnes, qui bibitis vinum, propter mustum, quoniam periit ab ore vestro.
6 For a people has invaded my land, mighty and without number; His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and his molars those of a lioness.	6 Gens enim ascendit super terram meam fortis et innumerabilis; dentes eius ut dentes leonis, et molares leaenae sunt ei.
7 He has laid waste my vine, and blighted my fig tree; He has stripped it, sheared off its bark; its branches are made white.	7 Posuit vineam meam in desertum et ficum meam in lignum confractum; nudans spoliavit eam et proiecit, albi facti sunt rami eius.
8 Lament like a virgin girt with sackcloth for the spouse of her youth.	8 Plange, quasi virgo accincta sacco super virum pubertatis suae.
9 Abolished are offering and libation from the house of the LORD; In mourning are the priests, the ministers of the LORD.	9 Periit oblatio et libatio de domo Domini; luxerunt sacerdotes ministri Domini.
10 The field is ravaged, the earth mourns, Because the grain is ravaged, the must has failed, the oil languishes.	10 Depopulata est regio; luxit humus, quoniam devastatum est triticum, defecit mustum, elanguit oleum.
11 Be appalled, you husbandmen! wail, you vinedressers! Over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.	11 Confundemini, agricolae, ululate, vinitores, super frumento et hordeo, quia periit messis agri.
12 The vine has dried up, the fig tree is withered; The pomegranate, the date palm also, and the apple, all the trees of the field are dried up; Yes, joy has withered away from among mankind.	12 Vinea exaruit, et ficus elanguit, malogranatum et palma et malum et omnia ligna agri aruerunt, quia evanuit gaudium a filiis hominum.
13 Gird yourselves and weep, O priests! wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! The house of your God is deprived of offering and libation.	13 Accingite vos et plangite, sacerdotes; ululate, ministri altaris. Ingredimini, cubate in sacco, ministri Dei mei, quoniam interiit de domo Dei vestri oblatio et libatio.
14 Proclaim a fast, call an assembly; Gather the elders, all who dwell in the land, Into the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD!	14 Sanctificate ieiunium, vocate coetum, congregate senes, omnes habitatores terrae in domum Dei vestri, et clamate ad Dominum:
15 Alas, the day! for near is the day of the LORD, and it comes as ruin from the Almighty.	15 “ Heu diei! Quia prope est dies Domini, et quasi vastitas a potente veniet.
16 From before our very eyes has not the food been cut off; And from the house of our God, joy and gladness?	16 Numquid non coram oculis vestris alimenta perierunt, de domo Dei nostri laetitia et exsultatio?”.
17 The seed lies shriveled under its clods; the stores are destroyed, The barns are broken down, for the grain has failed.	17 Computruerunt semina subtus glebas suas, demolita sunt horrea, dissipatae sunt apothecae, eo quod exaruit triticum.
18 How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered! Because they have no pasturage, even the flocks of sheep have perished.	18 Quid ingemuit animal, perterrita sunt armenta boum, quia non est pascua eis? Sed et greges pecorum disperierunt.
19 To you, O LORD, I cry! for fire has devoured the pastures of the plain, and flame has enkindled all the trees of the field.	19 Ad te, Domine, clamo, quia ignis comedit pascua deserti, et flamma succendit omnia ligna agri.
20 Even the beasts of the field cry out to you; For the streams of water are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the plain.	20 Sed et bestiae agri suspirant ad te, quoniam exsiccati sunt fontes aquarum, et ignis devoravit pascua deserti.