Joel 1:12

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.

My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

“ ‘I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh. No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things that I have given them will pass away from them.’ ”

Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.

As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.

When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Yahweh’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.

I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.

I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.

There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.

Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”

But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.

“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;

For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate.

Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells in it will waste away, with all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky, yes, the fish of the sea also die.

Yahweh answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says Yahweh of Armies.

That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.

You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”

It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.

For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping. For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.

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

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

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

“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.

Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says Yahweh.

“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.

It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;

a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.

The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage will fail. The harvest won’t come.

The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.

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

Neither does one jostle another; they march everyone in his path, and they burst through the defenses, and don’t break ranks.

Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”

I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.

But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”