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

¹Slovo Hospodinovo, ktoré sa stalo k Joelovi, synovi Petuelovmu.

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

²Počujte to, starci, a pozorujte ušami, všetci obyvatelia zeme! Či sa to stalo za vašich dní a či za dní vašich otcov?

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

³Rozprávajte o tom svojim synom, a vaši synovia nech rozprávajú svojim synom a ich synovia pokoleniu, ktoré prijde potom.

⁴That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.

⁴To, čo zostalo po húseniciach, požraly kobylky; to, čo zostalo po kobylkách, požrali pažraví chrobáci, a to, čo zostalo po chrobákoch, požrali chrústi.

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

⁵Prebuďte sa, opilci, a plačte, a kvíľte všetci, ktorí pijete víno, nad novým vínom sladkým, pretože bude vyťaté z vašich úst.

⁶For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

⁶Lebo prišiel národ hore na moju zem, mocný, a niet mu počtu; jeho zuby sú zubami ľva, a má črenové zuby ľvice.

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.

⁷Obráti môj vinič na pustinu a môj fík na rázgy, olúpe ho docela a odhodí; jeho letorasty obelejú.

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

⁸Kvíľ ako panna, opásaná smútočným vrecom, nad mužom svojej mladosti!

⁹The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

⁹Vyťatý bude obetný dar obilný i liata obeť z domu Hospodinovho; kňazi budú smútiť, svätoslužobníci Hospodinovi.

¹⁰The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

¹⁰Spustošené bude pole, smútiť bude zem, pretože spustošené bude obilie, vyschne vínna šťava, uvädne olej.

¹¹Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.

¹¹Oráči sa budú stydieť, vinári budú kvíliť, pre pšenicu a pre jačmeň, lebo zhynie žatva poľa.

¹²The vine is withered, 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: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.

¹²Vinič uschne, a fík uvädne, granát i palma i jabloň; všetky stromy poľa poschnú, lebo radosť sa bude stydieť a utečie od synov človeka.

¹³Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.

¹³Prepášte sa a nariekajte, kňazi! Kvíľte, svätoslužobníci oltára! Vojdite, nocujte v smútočnom vreci, svätoslužobníci môjho Boha! Pretože bude odňatý obetný dar obilný i liata obeť z domu vášho Boha.

¹⁴Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.

¹⁴Zasväťte pôst, svolajte shromaždenie, shromaždite starších, všetkých obyvateľov zeme do domu Hospodina, svojho Boha, a kričte k Hospodinovi.

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

¹⁵Beda toho dňa! Lebo je blízko deň Hospodinov a prijde od Všemohúceho jako lúpež.

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

¹⁶Či nebude vyťatý pokrm pred našimi očami, z domu nášho Boha radosť a plesanie?

¹⁷The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

¹⁷Splesneje zrno pod svojimi hrudami, spustnú zásobárne, zborené budú obilnice, pretože zahanbí obilie.

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

¹⁸Oj, ako bude stonať dobytok, ako budú zmätené stáda hoviad, lebo nebude pre ne paše, i stáda drobného dobytka budú pykať.

¹⁹O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

¹⁹K tebe, ó, Hospodine, volám, lebo oheň žerie pasienky pustiny, a plameň páli všetky stromy poľa.

²⁰Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

²⁰Ešte i tá poľná zver práhnuc reve k tebe, pretože vyschly potoky vôd, a oheň strávil pasienky pustiny.