From: "FamilyNet" 

Bible Reading for June 26

Joel 1
[1] The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. [2] Hear
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? [3] Tell ye your
children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their
children another generation. [4] That 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.
[5] Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye 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 hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. [7] He
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. [8] Lament
like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. [9] The
meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD;
the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn. [10] The field is wasted, the
land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil
languisheth. [11] Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye 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 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. [13] Gird 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.
[14] Sanctify 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,
[15] Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a
destruction from the Almighty shall it come. [16] Is not the meat cut off
before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
[17] The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate,
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;
yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. [19] O 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. [20] The 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.

Joel 2
[1] Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain:
let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD
cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
[2] A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick
darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a
strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after
it, even to the years of many generations. [3] A fire devoureth before
them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden
before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall
escape them. [4] The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and
as horsemen, so shall they run.
[5] Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap,
like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong
people set in battle array.
[6] Before their face the people shall be much 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 on his ways, and they shall not break
their ranks:
[8] Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his
path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. [9]
They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they
shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a
thief.
[10] The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun
and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
[11] And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is
very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the
LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? [12] Therefore also
now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with
fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: [13] And rend your heart, and
not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and
merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the
evil.
[14] Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind
him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God? [15]
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: [16]
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather
the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth
of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. [17] Let the priests, the
ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them
say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach,
that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the
people, Where is their God? [18] Then will the LORD be jealous for his
land, and pity his people. [19] Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his
people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be
satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the
heathen: [20] But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and
will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the
east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall
come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great
things. [21] Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do
great things.
[22] Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the
wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the
vine do yield their strength.
[23] Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God:
for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come
down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first
month.
[24] And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow
with wine and oil.
[25] And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the
cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I
sent among you.
[26] And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of
the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall
never be ashamed.
[27] And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the
LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. [28]
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon
all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men
shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: [29] And also upon
the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my
spirit.
[30] And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and
fire, and pillars of smoke.
[31] The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before
the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. [32] And it shall come to
pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered:
for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath
said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Joel 3
[1] For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again
the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, [2] I will also gather all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead
with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
[3] And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an
harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. [4] Yea, and what
have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine?
will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompence me, swiftly and
speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; [5] Because ye
have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my
goodly pleasant things:
[6] The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold
unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. [7]
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and
will return your recompence upon your own head: [8] And I will sell your
sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they
shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath
spoken it.
[9] Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty
men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: [10] Beat your
plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak
say, I am strong.
[11] Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves
together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
[12] Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat:
for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. [13] Put ye in
the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is
full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. [14] Multitudes,
multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in
the valley of decision. [15] The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and
the stars shall withdraw their shining.
[16] The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be
the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. [17] So
shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy
mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass
through her any more.
[18] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop
down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of
Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house
of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. [19] Egypt shall be a
desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence
against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in
their land.
[20] But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
[21] For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD
dwelleth in Zion.


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