Yoel 1

¹Rab'bin, Batuel oğlu Yoel üzerinde gerçekleşen sözüdür.

²Ey ihtiyarlar, bunları dinleyin ve ey ülkede yaşayanların tümü, kulak verin! Sizin günlerinizde ya da atalarınızın günlerinde hiç böyle bir şey gerçekleşti mi?

³Bu olaylar hakkında çocuklarınıza anlatın, çocuklarınız kendi çocuklarına anlatsın ve onların çocukları da sonraki kuşağa aktarsın.

⁴Tırtılın geride bıraktığını göçücü çekirge yedi bitirdi, göçücü çekirgenin geride bıraktığını kanatsız çekirge yedi bitirdi ve kanatsız çekirgenin geride bıraktığını da küf yiyip tüketti.

⁵Ey şaraptan ötürü sızmış olanlar, ayılın ve ağlayın; sarhoş olana dek şarap içenlerin tümü, feryat edin! Çünkü neşe ve sevinç ağzınızdan sökülüp alındı.

⁶Çünkü ülkemin üzerine güçlü ve sayısız bir ulus çıktı; onun dişleri aslan dişi, azı dişleri ise genç bir aslanın çenesi gibidir.

⁷Asmamı viraneye çevirdi ve incir ağaçlarımı kırıp döktü; onu en ince ayrıntısına kadar soyup soğana çevirerek yere fırlattı, dallarını bembeyaz bıraktı.

⁸Gençlik kocasının ardından çuval bezine sarınmış bir gelin gibi, benim için yas tut.

⁹Rab'bin evinden sunu ve dökmelik sunu tamamen kaldırıldı; Rab'bin sunağında hizmet eden kâhinler yas tutuyor.

¹⁰Çünkü ovalar acı çekip harap oldu; toprak yas tutsun, çünkü tahıl sefil duruma düştü, yeni şarap kurudu, zeytinyağı tükendi.

¹¹Çiftçiler perişan olup kurudu; ey toprak sahipleri, buğday ve arpa için feryat edin, çünkü tarlanın hasadı yok olup gitti.

¹²Asma kurudu ve incir ağaçları azaldı; nar, hurma, elma ve tarladaki tüm ağaçlar kuruyup gitti; çünkü insanoğulları sevinci utanca boğdu.

¹³Ey kâhinler, çuval bezini kuşanın ve dövünün; sunağa hizmet edenler, feryat edin! İçeri girin, Tanrı'ya hizmet edenler, çuval bezleri içinde yas uykusuna yatın; çünkü Tanrınızın evinden sunu ve dökmelik sunu esirgendi.

¹⁴Bir oruç günü ilan edin, bir şifa töreni çağrısında bulunun; ihtiyarları ve ülkede yaşayanların tümünü Tanrınızın evine toplayın ve Rab'be içtenlikle feryat edin.

¹⁵Eyvah, eyvah, o gün için eyvahlar olsun! Çünkü Rab'bin günü yakındır ve sefaletten doğan bir sefalet gibi gelecektir.

¹⁶Gözlerimizin önünde yiyecekler, Tanrımızın evinden ise neşe ve sevinç yok edilmedi mi?

¹⁷Düveler boş yemliklerinin başında acıyla tepindi, ambarlar harap oldu, şırahaneler yıkıldı; çünkü tahıl kurudu.

¹⁸Kendimiz için ne depolayacağız? Sığır sürüleri feryat edip ağladı, çünkü otlakları kalmadı; koyun sürüleri bile kırılıp yok oldu.

¹⁹Sana feryat ediyorum, ya Rab! Çünkü ateş çölün en güzel vahalarını yiyip bitirdi, alev tarladaki tüm ağaçları yakıp kül etti.

²⁰Ovanın hayvanları bile gözlerini sana dikti; çünkü su akıntıları kurudu ve ateş çölün en güzel vahalarını yiyip bitirdi.

¹ΛΟΓΟΣ Κυρίου, ὃς ἐγενήθη πρὸς ᾿Ιωὴλ τὸν τοῦ Βαθουήλ.

²᾿Ακούσατε ταῦτα, οἱ πρεσβύτεροι, καὶ ἐνωτίσασθε, πάντες οἱ κατοικοῦντες τὴν γῆν. εἰ γέγονε τοιαῦτα ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ὑμῶν ἢ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῶν πατέρων ὑμῶν;

³ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν διηγήσασθε, καὶ τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν τοῖς τέκνοις αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν εἰς γενεὰν ἑτέραν.

⁴τὰ κατάλοιπα τῆς κάμπης κατέφαγεν ἡ ἀκρίς, καὶ τὰ κατάλοιπα τῆς ἀκρίδος κατέφαγεν ὁ βροῦχος, καὶ τὰ κατάλοιπα τοῦ βρούχου κατέφαγεν ἡ ἐρυσίβη.

⁵ἐκνήψατε, οἱ μεθύοντες, ἐξ οἴνου αὐτῶν καὶ κλαύσατε· θρηνήσατε, πάντες οἱ πίνοντες οἶνον εἰς μέθην, ὅτι ἐξῄρθη ἐκ στόματος ὑμῶν εὐφροσύνη καὶ χαρά.

⁶ὅτι ἔθνος ἀνέβη ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν μου ἰσχυρὸν καὶ ἀναρίθμητον, οἱ ὀδόντες αὐτοῦ, ὀδόντες λέοντος, καὶ αἱ μύλαι αὐτοῦ σκύμνου.

⁷ἔθετο τὴν ἄμπελόν μου εἰς ἀφανισμὸν καὶ τὰς συκᾶς μου εἰς συγκλασμόν· ἐρευνῶν ἐξηρεύνησεν αὐτὴν καὶ ἔρριψεν, ἐλεύκανε τὰ κλήματα αὐτῆς.

⁸θρήνησον πρός με ὑπὲρ νύμφην περιεζωσμένην σάκκον ἐπὶ τὸν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς τὸν παρθενικόν.

⁹ἐξῇρται θυσία καὶ σπονδὴ ἐξ οἴκου Κυρίου. πενθεῖτε, οἱ ἱερεῖς οἱ λειτουργοῦντες θυσιαστηρίῳ Κυρίου,

¹⁰ὅτι τεταλαιπώρηκε τὰ πεδία· πενθείτω ἡ γῆ, ὅτι τεταλαιπώρηκε σῖτος, ἐξηράνθη οἶνος, ὠλιγώθη ἔλαιον.

¹¹ἐξηράνθησαν γεωργοί· θρηνεῖτε, κτήματα, ὑπὲρ πυροῦ καὶ κριθῆς, ὅτι ἀπόλωλε τρυγητὸς ἐξ ἀγροῦ·

¹²ἡ ἄμπελος ἐξηράνθη, καὶ αἱ συκαῖ ὠλιγώθησαν· ῥόα καὶ φοῖνιξ καὶ μῆλον καί πάντα τὰ ξύλα τοῦ ἀγροῦ ἐξηράνθησαν, ὅτι ᾔσχυναν χαρὰν οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων.

¹³περιζώσασθε καὶ κόπτεσθε, οἱ ἱερεῖς, θρηνεῖτε οἱ λειτουργοῦντες θυσιαστηρίῳ· εἰσέλθετε ὑπνώσατε ἐν σάκκοις λειτουργοῦντες Θεῷ, ὅτι ἀπέσχηκεν ἐξ οἴκου Θεοῦ ὑμῶν θυσία καὶ σπονδή.

¹⁴ἁγιάσατε νηστείαν, κηρύξατε θεραπείαν, συναγάγετε πρεσβυτέρους πάντας κατοικοῦντας γῆν εἰς οἶκον Θεοῦ ὑμῶν καὶ κεκράξετε πρὸς Κύριον ἐκτενῶς·

¹⁵οἴμοι, οἴμοι, οἴμοι εἰς ἡμέραν, ὅτι ἐγγὺς ἡ ἡμέρα Κυρίου καὶ ὡς ταλαιπωρία ἐκ ταλαιπωρίας ἥξει.

¹⁶κατέναντι τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ὑμῶν βρώματα ἐξωλοθρεύθη, ἐξ οἴκου Θεοῦ ὑμῶν εὐφροσύνη καὶ χαρά.

¹⁷ἐσκίρτησαν δαμάλεις ἐπὶ ταῖς φάτναις αὐτῶν, ἠφανίσθησαν θησαυροί, κατεσκάφησαν ληνοί, ὅτι ἐξηράνθη σῖτος.

¹⁸τί ἀποθήσομεν ἑαυτοῖς; ἔκλαυσαν βουκόλια βοῶν, ὅτι οὐχ ὑπῆρχε νομὴ αὐτοῖς, καὶ τὰ ποίμνια τῶν προβάτων ἠφανίσθησαν.

¹⁹πρὸς σέ, Κύριε, βοήσομαι, ὅτι πῦρ ἀνήλωσε τὰ ὡραῖα τῆς ἐρήμου, καὶ φλὸξ ἀνῆψε πάντα τὰ ξύλα τοῦ ἀγροῦ·

²⁰καὶ τὰ κτήνη τοῦ πεδίου ἀνέβλεψαν πρὸς σέ, ὅτι ἐξηράνθησαν ἀφέσεις ὑδάτων καὶ πῦρ κατέφαγε τὰ ὡραῖα τῆς ἐρήμου.

¹The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Bathuel.

²Hear these [words], ye elders, and hearken all ye that inhabit the land. Have such things happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

³Tell your children concerning them, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.

⁴The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.

⁵Awake, ye drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and removed are from your mouth.

⁶For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion’s teeth, and their back teeth those of a [lion’s] whelp.

⁷He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched [my vine], and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.

⁸Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

⁹The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.

¹⁰For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;

¹¹the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.

¹²The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm-tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have abolished joy.

¹³Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests: mourn, ye that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, ye that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.

¹⁴Sanctify a fast, proclaim a [solemn] service, gather the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,

¹⁵Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is nigh, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.

¹⁶[Your] meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.

¹⁷The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine-presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.

¹⁸What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.

¹⁹To thee, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.

²⁰And the cattle of the field have looked up to thee: for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.