The King James Version Bible

Joel 1:5-12

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

  5. The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.

  6. The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.