The Book of Joel

Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.

The Books of the Bible

Previous Book: Hosea

Language:

Hebrew

Author:

Joel

People:

Joel son of Pethuel

Places:

Zion

Highlights

Lament over Israel's Ruin

Joel 1:1-11

Hear this, O elders,

give ear, all inhabitants of the land!

Has such a thing happened in your days,

or in the days of your ancestors?

3 Tell your children of it,

and let your children tell their children,

and their children another generation.

Be dismayed, you farmers,

wail, you vinedressers,

over the wheat and the barley;

for the crops of the field are ruined.

12 The vine withers,

the fig tree droops.

Pomegranate, palm, and apple—

all the trees of the field are dried up;

surely, joy withers away

among the people.

A Call to Repentance and Prayer

Joel 2:12

Yet even now, says the LORD,

return to me with all your heart,

with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

13 rend your hearts and not your clothing.

Return to the LORD, your God,

for he is gracious and merciful,

slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love,

and relents from punishing.

14 Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,

and leave a blessing behind him,

a grain offering and a drink offering

for the LORD, your God?

God’s Response and Promise

Joel 2:18-19

Then the LORD became jealous for his land,

and had pity on his people.

19 In response to his people the LORD said:

I am sending you

grain, wine, and oil,

and you will be satisfied;

and I will no more make you

a mockery among the nations.

The Glorious Future of Judah

Joel 3:17-18

So you shall know that I, the LORD your God,

dwell in Zion, my holy mountain.

And Jerusalem shall be holy,

and strangers shall never again pass through it.

18 In that day

the mountains shall drip sweet wine,

the hills shall flow with milk,

and all the stream beds of Judah

shall flow with water;

a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD

and water the Wadi Shittim.

Next Book: Amos

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