¹The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

¹Ny tenin'i Jehovah, izay tonga tamin'i Joela, zanak'i Petoela.

²Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

²[Filazana ny loza nanjo, ary fitarainana sy anatra noho izany] Henoy izao, ry anti-panahy! Ary mandrenesa, ianareo mponina rehetra amin'ny tany! Moa mba efa nisy tamin'ny andronareo na tamin'ny andron'ny razanareo, va izao?

³Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

³Lazao amin'ny zanakareo izao, ary aoka ny zanakareo hilaza amin'ny zanany kosa, ary ny zanak'ireo kosa indray amin'ny taranaka mandimby azy.

⁴That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

⁴Izay sisan'ny kijeja dia nohanin'ny koraika; Ary izay sisan'ny koraika dia nohanin'ny valalavao: Ary izay sisan'ny valalavao dia nohanin'ny sompanga. [Heb. mpikiky][Heb. mpilelaka] [Heb. mpandany]

⁵Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

⁵Mifohaza, ianareo mpimamo, ka mitomania, eny, midradradradrà, ianareo mpisotro divay rehetra, noho ny ranom-boaloboka, satria tapaka tsy ho amin'ny vavanareo izany.

⁶For 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.

⁶Fa misy firenena mahery sady tsy hita isa miakatra hamely ny taniko; Ny nifiny dia nifin-diona, ary ny vazany dia vazan'ny liom-bavy.

⁷He 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.

⁷Nataony simba tokoa ny voaloboko, ary notapatapahiny ny aviaviko; Nataony nakiky tokoa ireny ka nariany, eny, tonga fotsy ny rantsany.

⁸Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

⁸Midradradradrà toy ny virijina misikindamba fisaonana noho ny amin'ny vadin'ny fahatanorany.[Heb. lamba malailay]

⁹The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.

⁹Efa tapaka tsy ho ao amin'ny tranon'i Jehovah ny fanatitra hohanina sy ny fanatitra aidina; Mitomany ny mpisorona, mpanao fanompoam-pivavahana ho an'i Jehovah.

¹⁰The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

¹⁰Mariry ny saha, misaona ny tany fambolena; Fa simba ny vary, ritra ny ranom-boaloboka, mihena ny diloilo.[Heb. Malazo]

¹¹Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

¹¹Aoka ho menatra ianareo mpiasa tany; midradradradrà, ianareo mpamboatra tanim-boaloboka, noho ny vary tritika sy ny vary hordea; Fa majifa ny vokatry ny saha;

¹²The 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.

¹²Maina ny voaloboka, malazo ny aviavy, ary malazo koa ny ampongaben-danitra sy ny rofia ary ny poma aza, dia ny hazo rehetra any an-tsaha; Eny, malazo ny fifalian'ny zanak'olombelona. [palma]

¹³Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

¹³Misikina sy mitomania, ianareo mpisorona; midradradradrà, ianareo mpanao fanompoam-pivavahana eo amin'ny alitara; Andeha mandry amin'ny lamba fisaonana mandritra ny alina, ianareo mpanao fanompoam-pivavahana ho an'Andriamanitro, fa tapaka tsy ho ao amin'ny tranon'Andriamanitra ny fanatitra hohanina sy ny fanatitra aidina.[Heb. lamba malailay]

¹⁴Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

¹⁴Manamasina andro fifadian-kanina, miantsoa fivoriana masina, angòny ny loholona sy ny mponina rehetra amin'ny tany ho ao an-tranon'i Jehovah Andriamanitrareo, koa andeha mitaraina amin'i Jehovah.

¹⁵Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

¹⁵Indrisy ny andro! Fa efa antomotra ny andron'i Jehovah, ka tahaka ny loza tsy toha avy amin'ny Tsitoha no fihaviny.

¹⁶Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

¹⁶Moa tsy efa tapaka teo imasontsika va ny hanina, eny, ny fifaliana sy ny faharavoravoana tsy ho ao an-tranon'Andriamanitsika?

¹⁷The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

¹⁷Matimaso ao ambanin'ny baingan-tany ny vary nafafy, foana ny sompitra, mirodana ny trano fitehirizam-bary; Fa nalazo ny vary.

¹⁸How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

¹⁸Indrisy, ny fitoreon'ny biby! Very hevitra ny omby andiany, satria tsy misy ahitra ho azy; Eny, na dia ny andian'ny ondry aman'osy aza dia mijaly noho ny heloka.

¹⁹O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

¹⁹Jehovah ô, Hianao no itarainako, fa efa levon'ny afo ny kijana any an-efitra, ary nisy lelafo efa nandoro ny hazo rehetra any an-tsaha.Na dia ny biby any an-tsaha aza dia mihanahana miandrandra Anao, satria ritra ny renirano, ary efa levon'ny afo ny kijana any an-efitra.

²⁰The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

²⁰Na dia ny biby any an-tsaha aza dia mihanahana miandrandra Anao, satria ritra ny renirano, ary efa levon'ny afo ny kijana any an-efitra.