Joel 1:2

New English Translation

Listen to this, you elders; pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life or in the lifetime of your ancestors?

Cross References

Job 12:12

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

Job 15:10

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

Job 21:7

“Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?

Job 8:8

“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

Psalm 49:1

Listen to this, all you nations! Pay attention, all you inhabitants of the world!

Isaiah 34:1

Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it.

Isaiah 7:17

The Lord will bring on you, your people, and your father’s family a time unlike any since Ephraim departed from Judah – the king of Assyria!”

Jeremiah 30:7

Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! There has never been any like it. It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob, but some of them will be rescued out of it.

Jeremiah 5:21

Tell them: ‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

Daniel 12:1

“At that time Michael, the great prince who watches over your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress unlike any other from the nation’s beginning up to that time. But at that time your own people, all those whose names are found written in the book, will escape.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites! For the Lord has a covenant lawsuit against the people of Israel. For there is neither faithfulness nor loyalty in the land, nor do they acknowledge God.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen closely, O king! For judgment is about to overtake you! For you were like a trap to Mizpah, like a net spread out to catch Tabor.

Joel 1:14

Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the temple of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Joel 2:2

It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army – there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!

Amos 3:1

Listen, you Israelites, to this message which the Lord is proclaiming against you! This message is for the entire clan I brought up from the land of Egypt:

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink!”

Amos 5:1

Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel:

Micah 1:2

Listen, all you nations! Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth! The sovereign Lord will testify against you; the Lord will accuse you from his majestic palace.

Micah 3:1

I said, “Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You ought to know what is just,

Micah 3:9

Listen to this, you leaders of the family of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You hate justice and pervert all that is right.

Matthew 13:9

The one who has ears had better listen!”

Matthew 24:21

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

Revelation 2:7

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.’