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Joel 1:3–5

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Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
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From verse 3

  1. Deuteronomy 6:7Rank 1 from verse 3
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    7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

  2. Psalms 145:4Rank 2 from verse 3
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    4One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

  3. Psalms 71:18Rank 3 from verse 3
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    18Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

  4. Exodus 13:14Rank 4 from verse 3
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    14¶ And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:

  5. Psalms 78:3–8Rank 5 from verse 3
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    3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

    4We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

    5For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

    6That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

    7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

    8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

  6. Exodus 10:1–2Rank 6 from verse 3
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    1AND the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:

    2And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the Lord.

  7. Isaiah 38:19Rank 7 from verse 3
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    19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

  8. Joshua 4:21–22Rank 8 from verse 3
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    21And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

    22Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

  9. Psalms 44:1Rank 9 from verse 3
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    1WE have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

  10. Joshua 4:6–7Rank 10 from verse 3
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    6That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

    7Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

From verse 4

  1. Joel 2:25Rank 1 from verse 4
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    25And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

  2. Amos 4:9Rank 2 from verse 4
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    9I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

  3. Amos 7:1Rank 3 from verse 4
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    1THUS hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

  4. Exodus 10:4Rank 4 from verse 4
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    4Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:

  5. Isaiah 33:4Rank 5 from verse 4
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    4And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

  6. Psalms 78:46Rank 6 from verse 4
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    46He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

  7. Deuteronomy 28:38Rank 7 from verse 4
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    38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

  8. Psalms 105:34Rank 8 from verse 4
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    34He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,

  9. 2 Chronicles 7:13Rank 9 from verse 4
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    13If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

  10. Exodus 10:12–15Rank 10 from verse 4
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    12¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

    13And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

    14And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

    15For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

  11. Jeremiah 51:14Rank 11 from verse 4
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    14The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

  12. Revelation 9:3–7Rank 12 from verse 4
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    3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

    4And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

    5And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

    6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

    7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

  13. 1 Kings 8:37Rank 13 from verse 4
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    37¶ If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

  14. 2 Chronicles 6:28Rank 14 from verse 4
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    28¶ If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:

  15. Jeremiah 51:27Rank 15 from verse 4
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    27Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

  16. Nahum 3:15–17Rank 16 from verse 4
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    15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

    16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

    17Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

  17. Deuteronomy 28:42Rank 17 from verse 4
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    42All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

From verse 5

  1. James 5:1Rank 1 from verse 5
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    1GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

  2. Luke 21:34–36Rank 2 from verse 5
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    34¶ And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

    35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

    36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

  3. Isaiah 32:10–12Rank 3 from verse 5
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    10Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

    11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

    12They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

  4. Amos 6:3–7Rank 4 from verse 5
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    3Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

    4That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

    5That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

    6That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

    7¶ Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

  5. Isaiah 24:7–11Rank 5 from verse 5
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    7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

    8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

    9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

    10The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

    11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

  6. Jeremiah 4:8Rank 6 from verse 5
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    8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

  7. Ezekiel 30:2Rank 7 from verse 5
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    2Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!

  8. Joel 1:11Rank 8 from verse 5
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    11Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

  9. Joel 1:13Rank 9 from verse 5
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    13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

  10. Joel 3:3Rank 10 from verse 5
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    3And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

  11. Luke 16:19Rank 11 from verse 5
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    19¶ There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

  12. Luke 16:23–25Rank 12 from verse 5
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    23And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

    24And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

    25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

  13. Romans 13:11–14Rank 13 from verse 5
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    11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

    12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

    13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

    14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

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Joel 1:3

COMBINED MEANING

tell

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1. To speak, relate, declare, report, inform, explain, reveal, recount, or make known. 2. To know, discern, or determine, especially in 'cannot tell' or 'who can tell.' 3. To count, number, or enumerate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

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let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

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another

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1. In "one another" and like reciprocal or distributive constructions, each the other, or one in relation to the other or others. 2. One other, one more, or a different or additional person or thing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Joel 1:4

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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left

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Sense 1: Past tense and past participle of leave: departed, abandoned, allowed to remain, or caused to remain. Sense 2: The direction or side opposite the right.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

eaten

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Sense 1: Chewed and swallowed. Sense 2: Consumed or corroded.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Joel 1:5

COMBINED MEANING

awake

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Sense 1: To cease sleeping or to arouse from sleep or inactivity. Sense 2: Not sleeping; fully roused from sleep.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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weep

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To shed tears or lament in grief, sorrow, compassion, repentance, joy, or other deep feeling.

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wine

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The produce of grapes or other fruit used as a drink.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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new

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Recently made, begun, known, or received; fresh, different, or not old.

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

cut

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Sense 1: To divide, sever, remove, or wound with a sharp instrument. Sense 2: Figuratively, to grieve deeply or bring to an end.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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mouth

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Sense 1: The bodily opening used for eating, breathing, and speaking. Sense 2: The opening or entrance of a thing. Sense 3: Speech, utterance, or the agency of speaking.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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1:1THE word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

1:2Hear 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?

1:3Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

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1:4That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

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1:5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

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1:6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

1:7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

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