RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

Pethu-El.
2 Hear this, you old men, and give ear, all you
inhabitants of eretz Yisrael. Has this been in your days,
or even in the days of your ahvot? 3035
3 Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their
children, and their children another generation.
4 That which the gnawing locust has left the swarming
locust has eaten; and that which the swarming locust
has left the crawling locust has eaten; and that which
the crawling locust has left the consuming locust has
eaten. 3036
5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you
drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut
off from your mouth.
6 For a nation is come up upon My land, strong, and
without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and
he has the fangs of a great lion. 3037
7 He has laid My vine waste, and splintered My fig eytz:
he has made it clean bare, and cast it away; the
branches of it are made white.
8 Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the
husband of her youth.
9 The grain offering and the drink offering is cut off
from the Bayit of vuvh; the Kohanim, vuvh’s avadim,
mourn.
10 The field is ravaged, the land mourns; for the corn is
ruined: the new wine is dried up, the oil fails.
11 Be you ashamed, O you farmers; wail, O you
vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because
the harvest of the field is perished.
12 The vine is dried up, and the fig eytz droops; the
pomegranate eytz, the palm eytz also, and the apple
eytz, even all the eytzim of the field, are withered:
because simcha is withered away from the sons of men.
13 Gird yourselves, and lament, you Kohanim: wail,
you avadim of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth,
you avadim of my Elohim: for the grain offering and the
drink offering is withheld from the Bayit of your Elohim.
14 Set-Apart a fast, call a miqra kodesh, gather the
zechanim and all the inhabitants of eretz Yisrael into the
Bayit of vuvh your Elohim, and cry out to vuvh,
15 Oy! For the day! For Yom vuvh is at hand, and as
destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
16 Is not the grain cut off before our eyes, yes, simcha
and gilah from the Bayit of our Elohim?
17 The zera is rotten under their clods, the storehouses
are laid desolate, and the barns are broken down; for
the corn is withered.
18 How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are
perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks
of sheep also perish.
19 O vuvh, to You will I cry: for the fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned
all the eytzim of the field.
20 The beasts of the field cry also to You: for the rivers
of mayim have dried up, and the fire has devoured the
pastures of the wilderness. 3038
Yoel – ktuh ktuh – Joel
To Our Forefathers Yisrael
1 The word of vuvh that came to Yoel the son of
2
Blow the shofar in Tzion, and sound an alarm in My
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kadosh mountain: let all the inhabitants of eretz Yisrael
tremble: for Yom vuvh comes, for it is near at hand;
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds
and of thick darkness, as the morning dew upon the
mountains: a great people and a strong; there has not
been anything ever the like, neither shall there be any
more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3039
3 A fire devours in front of them; and behind them a
flame burns: eretz Yisrael is as the Gan Eden before
them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and
nothing shall escape from them.
4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of
horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
5 Like the noise of mirkavot on the tops of mountains
shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that
devours stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
6 Before their face the people shall be pained: all faces
shall gather blackness.
7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the
wall like men of war; and they shall march every one in
his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
8 Neither shall one press another; they shall walk every
one in his path: and when they fall from the weight of
their armor, they shall not be trampled.
9 They shall rush on the city; they shall run on the wall,
they shall climb up on the houses; they shall enter in at
the windows like a thief.
10 The earth shall quake before them; the shamayim
shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be darkened,
and the cochavim shall withdraw their shining:
11 And vuvh shall utter His voice before His army: for
His camp is very great: for He is strong that executes
His word: for Yom vuvh is great and very terrible; and
who can survive it?
12 Therefore also now, says vuvh teshuvah to Me with
all your lev, and with fasting, and with weeping, and
with mourning:
13 And tear your lev, and not your garments, and turn
to vuvh your Elohim: for He is full of unmerited favor
and rachamim, slow to anger, and of great chesed, and
relents from evil. 3040
14 Who knows if mankind will turn and relent, and
leave a bracha behind him; even a grain offering and a
drink offering to vuvh your Elohim?
15 Blow the shofar in Tzion, set-apart a fast, and call a
miqra kodesh:
16 Gather the people, set-apart the congregation,
assemble the zechanim, gather the children, and those
that nurse: let the bridegroom go forth from his
chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
17 Let the Kohanim, the avadim of vuvh, weep between
the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare Your
people, O vuvh, and give not Your heritage to reproach,
that the heathen should rule over them: why should they
say among the peoples, Where is their Elohim?
18 Then will vuvh be jealous for eretz Yisrael, and pity
His people.
19 Yes, vuvh will answer and say to His people, Behold,