Joel 1:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Hear this, O elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?

Cross References

Job 12:12

Is wisdom with the aged and understanding in length of days?

Job 15:10

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

Job 21:7

Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

Job 8:8

“For inquire now of bygone generations and consider what their ancestors have found,

Psalm 49:1

Hear this, all you peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

Isaiah 34:1

Draw near, O nations, to hear; O peoples, give heed! Let the earth hear and all that fills it, the world and all that comes from it.

Isaiah 7:17

The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on your ancestral house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria.”

Jeremiah 30:7

Alas! that day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob, yet he shall be rescued from it.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Daniel 12:1

“At that time Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, shall arise. There shall be a time of anguish such as has never occurred since nations first came into existence. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel, for the Lord has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty and no knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment pertains to you, for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness spread upon the mountains, a great and powerful army comes; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them in ages to come.

Amos 3:1

Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”

Amos 5:1

Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:

Micah 1:2

Hear, you peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

Micah 3:1

And I said: Listen, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Should you not know justice?—

Micah 3:9

Hear this, you rulers of the house of Jacob and chiefs of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,

Matthew 13:9

If you have ears, hear!”

Matthew 24:21

For at that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

Revelation 2:7

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers, I will give permission to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.