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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
JOEL, whose name, according to ST. JEROME, signifies THE LORD GOD: or,as others say, THE COMING DOWN OF GOD: prophesied about the same time inthe kingdom of Judea, as OSEE did in the kingdom of Israel. He foretellsunder figure the great evils that were coming upon the people for theirsins: earnestly exhorts them to repentance: and comforts them with thepromise of a TEACHER OF JUSTICE, viz., CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD, and of thecoming down of his holy SPIRIT.
Joel Chapter 1
The prophet describes the judgments that shall fall upon the people, andinvites them to fasting and prayer.
1:1. The word of the Lord, that came to Joel, the son of Phatuel.
1:2. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of theland: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
1:3. Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell theirchildren, and their children to another generation.
1:4. That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: andthat which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that whichthe bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed.
That which the palmerworm hath left, etc… Some understand thisliterally of the desolation of the land by these insects: othersunderstand it of the different invasions of the Chaldeans, or otherenemies.
1:5. Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that takedelight; in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.
1:6. For a nation come up upon my land, strong, and without number: histeeth are like the teeth of a lion: and his cheek teeth as of a lion'swhelp.
1:7. He hath laid my vineyard waste, and hath pilled off the bark of myfig tree: he hath stripped it bare, and cast it away; the branchesthereof are made white.
1:8. Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of heryouth.
1:9. Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: thepriests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned:
1:10. The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn iswasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.
1:11. The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for thewheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.
1:12. The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: thepomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all thetrees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from thechildren of men.
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