¹The Word of Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

¹Beseda GOSPODOVA, ki je prišla Joelu, sinu Petuelovemu.

²Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

²Čujte to, starci, in nagnite ušesa, vsi prebivalci dežele! Se li je zgodilo kaj takega v dneh vaših ali v očetov vaših dnevih?

³Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

³Pripovedujte o tem otrokom svojim in vaši otroci svojim otrokom in njih otroci prihodnjemu rodu:

⁴What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

⁴Kar je pustil žerec, je snedla kobilica; in kar je ostalo po kobilici, je snedel glodalec; kar pa je ostalo po glodalcu, je snedel pokončevalec [Imena četverim vrstam kobilic.].

⁵Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

⁵Zdramite se, ki ste pijani, in jokajte! in tulite vsi, ki pijete vino, zavoljo novega vina, da je vzeto od vaših ust!

⁶For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

⁶Kajti narod je prišel gori v deželo mojo, mogočen in brezštevilen; njegovi zobje so levovi zobje in grizalo ima kakor levinja.

⁷He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

⁷V pustoto je naredil vinsko trto mojo in polomil smokev mojo; dočista jo je ogolil in na tla pometal; obeljene so veje njene.

⁸Plakaj, dežela, kakor devica, ki je oblečena v raševnik zavoljo zaročenca mladosti svoje.

⁹The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.

⁹Jedilna in pitna daritev je odpravljena iz hiše GOSPODOVE; duhovniki, služabniki GOSPODOVI, žalujejo.

¹⁰The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

¹⁰Opustošeno je polje, zemlja žaluje; ker žito je pošlo, novo vino se je posušilo, olje izginilo.

¹¹Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

¹¹Sram vas bodi, kmetovalci, tulite, o vinogradniki, zaradi pšenice in zaradi ječmena; kajti pokončana je poljska žetev.

¹²The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

¹²Usahnila je vinska trta, opešala smokev; margarana, tudi palma in jablan in vse drevje na polju je suho, in minilo je veselje otroke človeške.

¹³Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” , for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

¹³Prepašite se z raševnikom in žalujte, duhovniki; tulíte, strežniki oltarja; pridite, prenočite v raševniku, služabniki mojega Boga! ker je hiši Boga vašega zadržana jedilna in pitna daritev.

¹⁴Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.

¹⁴Posvetite post, razglasite praznično zborovanje, zberite starejšine, vse prebivalce dežele v hišo GOSPODA, Boga svojega, in vpijte h GOSPODU!

¹⁵Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

¹⁵Gorje tega dneva! zakaj dan GOSPODOV je blizu in pride kakor razdejanje od Vsegamogočnega.

¹⁶Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

¹⁶Ni li nam pred očmi odvzet živež, veselje in radovanje iz hiše našega Boga?

¹⁷The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

¹⁷Zrnje je zgnilo pod svojimi grudami; založnice so opustošene, skednji razdrti, kajti žito se je posušilo.

¹⁸How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

¹⁸Kako ječi živina! goveje črede tavajo klavrno, ker nimajo paše; tudi črede drobnice trpe pokoro.

¹⁹Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

¹⁹O GOSPOD, k tebi kličem; ker ogenj je požrl pašnike v puščavi in plamen je požgal vse drevje na polju.Pa tudi zveri na polju žejne vpijejo k tebi, ker so posehnili potoki in je ogenj požrl pašnike v puščavi.

²⁰Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

²⁰Pa tudi zveri na polju žejne vpijejo k tebi, ker so posehnili potoki in je ogenj požrl pašnike v puščavi.