Joel 1:2 - Y'all Version Bible Y’all hear this, elders, and y’all listen, all inhabitants of the land! Has this ever happened in y’all’s days, or in the days of y’all’s fathers? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hear this, you aged men, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing as this occurred in your days or even in the days of your fathers? American Standard Version (1901) Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers? Common English Bible Hear this, elders; pay attention, everyone in the land! Has anything like this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors? Catholic Public Domain Version Listen to this, elders, and pay close attention, all inhabitants of the land. Did this ever happen in your days or in the days of your fathers? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers? |
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their ancestors.
Y’all hear this, all peoples. Y’all listen, all who inhabit the world,
Come near, y’all nations, to hear! Listen, y’all peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear, the world, and everything that comes from it.
YHWH will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house a time that has not come since day that Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria!
Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it! It will be the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he will be saved out of it.
‘Y’all listen to this now, foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
“At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.
Children of Israel, y’all must listen to the word of YHWH, for YHWH has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
“Priests, y’all must listen to this! House of Israel, y’all must pay attention! House of the king, y’all must open your ears! For the judgment is against y’all; because y’all have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
Y’all must sanctify a fast. Y’all must call a solemn assembly. Y’all gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of YHWH, your* God, and cry to YHWH.
A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
Y’all must listen this word that YHWH has spoken against y’all, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
Y’all must listen to this word, cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
Y’all must listen to this word that I take up for a lament over y’all, O house of Israel:
Listen, all y’all peoples! Listen, O earth, and all that is therein. Let Lord YHWH be witness against y’all, the Lord from ʜɪꜱ holy temple.
I said, “Y’all must listen now, heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Shouldn’t y’all know justice?
Y’all listen to this, heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and twist everything right,
For then there will be great oppression, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will be.
Whoever has an ear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.”