1:1The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:
2Hear this, you elders;give ear, all inhabitants of the land!Has such a thing happened in your days,or in the days of your fathers?3Tell your children of it,and let your children tell their children,and their children to another generation.
4What the cutting locust left,the swarming locust has eaten.What the swarming locust left,the hopping locust has eaten,and what the hopping locust left,the destroying locust has eaten.
5Awake, you drunkards, and weep,and wail, all you drinkers of wine,because of the sweet wine,for it is cut off from your mouth.6For a nation has come up against my land,powerful and beyond number;its teeth are lions’ teeth,and it has the fangs of a lioness.7It has laid waste my vineand splintered my fig tree;it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;their branches are made white.
8Lament like a virgin wearing sackclothfor the bridegroom of her youth.9The grain offering and the drink offering are cut offfrom the house of the LORD.The priests mourn,the ministers of the LORD.10The fields are destroyed,the ground mourns,because the grain is destroyed,the wine dries up,the oil languishes.
11Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil;wail, O vinedressers,for the wheat and the barley,because the harvest of the field has perished.12The vine dries up;the fig tree languishes.Pomegranate, palm, and apple,all the trees of the field are dried up,and gladness dries upfrom the children of man.
13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests;wail, O ministers of the altar.Go in, pass the night in sackcloth,O ministers of my God!Because grain offering and drink offeringare withheld from the house of your God.
14Consecrate a fast;call a solemn assembly.Gather the eldersand all the inhabitants of the landto the house of the LORD your God,and cry out to the LORD.
15Alas for the day!For the day of the LORD is near,and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.16Is not the food cut offbefore our eyes,joy and gladnessfrom the house of our God?
17The seed shrivels under the clods;the storehouses are desolate;the granaries are torn downbecause the grain has dried up.18How the beasts groan!The herds of cattle are perplexedbecause there is no pasture for them;even the flocks of sheep suffer.
19To you, O LORD, I call.For fire has devouredthe pastures of the wilderness,and flame has burnedall the trees of the field.20Even the beasts of the field pant for youbecause the water brooks are dried up,and fire has devouredthe pastures of the wilderness.
2:1Blow a trumpet in Zion;sound an alarm on my holy mountain!Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near,2a day of darkness and gloom,a day of clouds and thick darkness!Like blackness there is spread upon the mountainsa great and powerful people;their like has never been before,nor will be again after themthrough the years of all generations.
3Fire devours before them,and behind them a flame burns.The land is like the garden of Eden before them,but behind them a desolate wilderness,and nothing escapes them.
4Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,and like war horses they run.5As with the rumbling of chariots,they leap on the tops of the mountains,like the crackling of a flame of firedevouring the stubble,like a powerful armydrawn up for battle.
6Before them peoples are in anguish;all faces grow pale.7Like warriors they charge;like soldiers they scale the wall.They march each on his way;they do not swerve from their paths.8They do not jostle one another;each marches in his path;they burst through the weaponsand are not halted.9They leap upon the city,they run upon the walls,they climb up into the houses,they enter through the windows like a thief.
10The earth quakes before them;the heavens tremble.The sun and the moon are darkened,and the stars withdraw their shining.11The LORD utters his voicebefore his army,for his camp is exceedingly great;he who executes his word is powerful.For the day of the LORD is great and very awesome;who can endure it?
12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD,“return to me with all your heart,with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;13and rend your hearts and not your garments.”Return to the LORD your God,for he is gracious and merciful,slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;and he relents over disaster.14Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,and leave a blessing behind him,a grain offering and a drink offeringfor the LORD your God?
15Blow the trumpet in Zion;consecrate a fast;call a solemn assembly;16gather the people.Consecrate the congregation;assemble the elders;gather the children,even nursing infants.Let the bridegroom leave his room,and the bride her chamber. 3:1Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. 2And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. 3And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” 4And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. 5And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 6The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
56:1Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me;all day long an attacker oppresses me;2my enemies trample on me all day long,for many attack me proudly.3When I am afraid,I put my trust in you.4In God, whose word I praise,in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.What can flesh do to me?
5All day long they injure my cause;all their thoughts are against me for evil.6They stir up strife, they lurk;they watch my steps,as they have waited for my life.7For their crime will they escape?In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!
8You have kept count of my tossings;put my tears in your bottle.Are they not in your book?9Then my enemies will turn backin the day when I call.This I know, that God is for me.10In God, whose word I praise,in the LORD, whose word I praise,11in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.What can man do to me?
12I must perform my vows to you, O God;I will render thank offerings to you.13For you have delivered my soul from death,yes, my feet from falling,that I may walk before Godin the light of life.
14The wise lay up knowledge,but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.15A rich man’s wealth is his strong city;the poverty of the poor is their ruin.16The wage of the righteous leads to life,the gain of the wicked to sin.Joel 1–2:16
Mark 3:1–6
Psalm 56
To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Proverbs 10:14–16
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