Gioele 1

NOVA VULGATA	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Verbum Domini, quod factum est ad loel filium Phatuel.	1 The word of the LORD which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
2 Audite hoc, senes, et auribus percipite, omnes habitatores terrae, si factum est istud in diebus vestris aut in diebus patrum vestrorum.	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?
3 Super hoc filiis vestris narrate, et filii vestri filiis suis, et filii eorum generationi alterae.	3 Tell it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the next generation.
4 Residuum erucae comedit locusta, et residuum locustae comedit bruchus, et residuum bruchi comedit gryllus.	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.
5 Expergiscimini, ebrii, et flete, et ululate, omnes, qui bibitis vinum, propter mustum, quoniam periit ab ore vestro.	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.
6 Gens enim ascendit super terram meam fortis et innumerabilis; dentes eius ut dentes leonis, et molares leaenae sunt ei.	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.
7 Posuit vineam meam in desertum et ficum meam in lignum confractum; nudans spoliavit eam et proiecit, albi facti sunt rami eius.	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.
8 Plange, quasi virgo accincta sacco super virum pubertatis suae.	8 Lament like a virgin girt with sackcloth for the spouse of her youth.
9 Periit oblatio et libatio de domo Domini; luxerunt sacerdotes ministri Domini.	9 Abolished are offering and libation from the house of the LORD; In mourning are the priests, the ministers of the LORD.
10 Depopulata est regio; luxit humus, quoniam devastatum est triticum, defecit mustum, elanguit oleum.	10 The field is ravaged, the earth mourns, Because the grain is ravaged, the must has failed, the oil languishes.
11 Confundemini, agricolae, ululate, vinitores, super frumento et hordeo, quia periit messis agri.	11 Be appalled, you husbandmen! wail, you vinedressers! Over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 Vinea exaruit, et ficus elanguit, malogranatum et palma et malum et omnia ligna agri aruerunt, quia evanuit gaudium a filiis hominum.	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.
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.	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.
14 Sanctificate ieiunium, vocate coetum, congregate senes, omnes habitatores terrae in domum Dei vestri, et clamate ad Dominum:	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!
15 “ Heu diei! Quia prope est dies Domini, et quasi vastitas a potente veniet.	15 Alas, the day! for near is the day of the LORD, and it comes as ruin from the Almighty.
16 Numquid non coram oculis vestris alimenta perierunt, de domo Dei nostri laetitia et exsultatio?”.	16 From before our very eyes has not the food been cut off; And from the house of our God, joy and gladness?
17 Computruerunt semina subtus glebas suas, demolita sunt horrea, dissipatae sunt apothecae, eo quod exaruit triticum.	17 The seed lies shriveled under its clods; the stores are destroyed, The barns are broken down, for the grain has failed.
18 Quid ingemuit animal, perterrita sunt armenta boum, quia non est pascua eis? Sed et greges pecorum disperierunt.	18 How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered! Because they have no pasturage, even the flocks of sheep have perished.
19 Ad te, Domine, clamo, quia ignis comedit pascua deserti, et flamma succendit omnia ligna agri.	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.
20 Sed et bestiae agri suspirant ad te, quoniam exsiccati sunt fontes aquarum, et ignis devoravit pascua deserti.	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.