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Joel 1:19

Bible in Basic English 1965

O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.

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Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

And he said, The Lord will give a lion's cry from Zion, his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be wasted away.

This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.

But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.

And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?




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