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Joel 1:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I cry out to you, LORD. Grasslands and forests are eaten by the scorching heat.

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Pray to me in time of trouble. I will rescue you, and you will honour me.

When you are in trouble, call out to me. I will answer and be there to protect and honour you.

There has been no rain, and farmers feel sick as they watch cracks appear in the dry ground.

The kingdom of Judah wasn't sorry for being a prostitute, and she didn't care that she had made both herself and the land unclean by worshipping idols of stone and wood.

I weep for the pasture land in the hill country. It's so barren and scorched that no one travels there. No cattle can be found there, and birds and wild animals have all disappeared.

Give me one good reason not to punish them as they deserve. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken.

Fiery flames surround them; no one escapes. Before they invaded, the land was like Eden; now only a desert remains.

and I said: When the LORD roars from Jerusalem, pasture lands and Mount Carmel dry up and turn brown.

The LORD showed me that he is going to send a ball of fire to burn up everything on earth, including the sea.

But I trust the LORD God to save me, and I will wait for him to answer my prayer.

Jesus told his disciples a story about how they should keep on praying and never give up:

Won't God protect his chosen ones who pray to him day and night? Won't he be concerned for them?




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