UJoweli

UJoweli 1

1:1	The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
1:2	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?
1:3	Talk this over with your sons, and your sons with their sons, and their sons with another generation.
1:4	The locust has eaten what the caterpillar has left, and the beetle has eaten what the locust has left, and the mildew has eaten what the beetle has left.
1:5	Rouse yourselves, you drunkards, and weep and wail, all you who delight in drinking wine; for it has been cut off from your mouth.
1:6	For a nation has ascended over my land: strong and without number. His teeth are like the teeth of a lion, and his molars are like that of a lion’s young.
1:7	He has put my vineyard into desolation, and he has pulled off the bark of my fig tree. He has stripped it bare and cast it away; its branches have become white.
1:8	Lament like a betrothed virgin, wrapped in sackcloth at the loss of the husband of her youth.
1:9	Sacrifice and libation have perished from the house of the Lord; the priests who are ministers of the Lord have mourned.
1:10	The region has been depopulated, the soil has mourned. For the wheat has been devastated, the wine has been disfigured, the oil has languished.
1:11	The farmers have been confounded, the vineyard workers have wailed over the crop and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
1:12	The vineyard is in ruin, and the fig tree has languished. The pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the fruit tree, and all the trees of the field have withered. For joy has been thrown into disorder before the sons of men.
1:13	Abapristi, bhincani nilile. Izikhonzi zama-altare, khala. Ngena, izikhonzi zikaNkulunkulu wami, lala ngendwangu yamasaka. Ngokuba umhlatshelo nomnikelo wokuphuzwayo kudlulile endlini kaNkulunkulu wakho.
1:14	Ngcwelisa ukuzila, biza umhlangano, butha amalunga nabo bonke abakhileyo ezweni endlini kaNkulunkulu wakho. Futhi akhale eNkosini:
1:15	“Ah, ah, ah, usuku!” Ngoba usuku lweNkosi luseduze, futhi izofika, njengencithakalo, phambi kwabanamandla.
1:16	Has not your nourishment perished from before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
1:17	The mules have rotted in their own manure, the barns have been demolished, the wine cellars have been destroyed, because the grain has been ruined.
1:18	Why have the animals groaned, the herds of cattle bellowed? because there is no pasture for them. Yebo, and even the flocks of sheep have been lost.
1:19	Kuwe, O Nkosi, ngizokhala, because fire has devoured the beauty of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the countryside.
1:20	Yebo, and even the beasts of the field have gazed up at you, like the dry ground thirsting for rain, because the fountains of waters have dried up, and fire has devoured the beauty of the wilderness.

UJoweli 2

2:1	Vuthelani icilongo eSiyoni, khalani entabeni yami engcwele, mabanyakaze bonke abakhileyo ezweni. Ngoba usuku lweNkosi lusendleleni; ngoba iseduze:
2:2	usuku lobumnyama nesigayegaye, usuku lwamafu nezivunguvungu. Njengokuthi ukusa kufinyelele phezu kwezintaba, bangabantu abaningi futhi abanamandla. Ayikho into efana nabo kusukela ekuqaleni, futhi kakuyikuba khona emva kwabo, naseminyakeni yezizukulwane ngezizukulwane.
2:3	Before their face is a devouring fire, and behind them is a burning flame. The land before them is like a lush garden, and behind them is a desolate desert, and there is no one who can escape them.
2:4	Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and they will rush forward like horsemen.
2:5	Like the sound of a four-horse chariot, they will leap over the tops of the mountains. Like the sound of a burning flame devouring stubble, they are as a strong people prepared for battle.
2:6	Before their face, the people will be tortured; each one’s appearance will retreat, as if into a jar.
2:7	They will rush forward, as if they were strong. Like valiant warriors, they will ascend the wall. The men will advance, each one on his own way, and they will not turn aside from their path.
2:8	And each one will not hem in his brother; every one will walk in his own rough path. Ngaphezu kwalokho, they will drop through the breach and not be harmed.
2:9	They will advance into the city; they will rush through the wall. They will scale the houses; they will go in through the windows, like a thief.
2:10	Before their face, the earth has trembled, the heavens have been moved. The sun and moon have been obscured, and the stars have retracted their splendor.
2:11	And the Lord has bestowed his voice before the face of his army. For its military camps are very numerous; for they are strong and they carry out his word. For the day of the Lord is great and so very terrible, and who can withstand it?
2:12	Manje, ngakho-ke, the Lord says: “Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting and weeping and mourning.”
2:13	And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and convert to the Lord your God. For he is gracious and merciful, patient and full of compassion, and steadfast despite ill will.
2:14	Who knows if he might convert and forgive, and bequeath a blessing after him, a sacrifice and a libation to the Lord your God?
2:15	Vuthelani icilongo eSiyoni, sanctify a fast, biza umhlangano.
2:16	Gather the people, sanctify the church, unite the elders, gather together the little ones and infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom depart from his bed, and the bride from her bridal chamber.
2:17	Between the vestibule and the altar, abapristi, the ministers of the Lord, will weep, futhi bazothi: “Spare, O Nkosi, spare your people. And do not bequeath your inheritance into disgrace, so that the nations would rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?' ”
2:18	The Lord has been zealous for his land, and he has spared his people.
2:19	Yasabela iNkosi, and he said to his people: “Bheka, I will send you grain and wine and oil, and you will again be filled with them. And I will no longer give you disgrace among the Gentiles.
2:20	And he who is from the North, I will drive far from you. And I will expel him into an impassable land, and into the desert, with his face opposite the Eastern sea, and his furthest part towards the furthest sea. And his stench will ascend, and his rottenness will ascend, because he has acted arrogantly.
2:21	Earth, Ungesabi. Exult and rejoice. For the Lord has great esteem for what he has done.
2:22	Animals of the countryside, Ungesabi. For the beauty of the wilderness has sprung forth. For the tree has borne its fruit. The fig tree and the vine have bestowed their virtue.
2:23	Nawe, sons of Zion, exult and rejoice in the Lord your God. For he has given you a teacher of justice, and he will make the early and the late rains descend to you, just as it was in the beginning.
2:24	And the threshing floors will be filled with grain, and the presses will overflow with wine and oil.
2:25	And I will repay you for the years which the locust, and the beetle, and the mildew, and the caterpillar consumed: my great strength which I sent upon you.
2:26	And you will eat with enjoyment, and you will be satisfied, and you will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked miracles with you, and my people will not be confounded forever.
2:27	And you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and I am the Lord your God, futhi alikho elinye, and my people will not be confounded forever.
2:28	Futhi emva kwalokhu, it will happen that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy; your elders will dream dreams, and your youths will see visions.
2:29	Ngaphezu kwalokho, in those days I will pour out my spirit upon my servants and handmaids.
2:30	And I will grant wonders in the sky and on earth: igazi nomlilo kanye nentuthu yomusi.
2:31	The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall arrive.
2:32	And it will happen that everyone who will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. For on Mount Zion, naseJerusalema, and in the remnant whom the Lord will call, there will be salvation, just as the Lord has said.

UJoweli 3

3:1	Ngoba, bheka, in those days and in that time, when I will have converted the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
3:2	I will gather all the Gentiles, and will lead them into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And there I will dispute with them over my people, and over Israel, my inheritance, for they have scattered them among the nations and have divided my land.
3:3	And they have cast lots over my people; and the boy they have placed in the brothel, and the girl they have sold for wine, so that they might drink.
3:4	Ngempela, what is there between you and me, Tyre and Sidon and all the distant places of the Philistines? How will you take vengeance on me? And if you were to revenge yourselves against me, I would deliver a repayment to you, quickly and soon, upon your head.
3:5	For you have carried away my silver and gold. And my desirable and most beautiful, you have taken into your shrines.
3:6	Nawe, sons of Judah and sons of Jerusalem, you have sold the sons of the Greeks, so that you might drive them far from their own territory.
3:7	Bheka, I will raise them up from the place into which you have sold them, and I will turn back your retribution on your own head.
3:8	And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a distant nation, ngoba uJehova ukhulumile.
3:9	Proclaim this among the Gentiles: “Sanctify a war, raise up the strong. Indlela, ascend, all men of war.
3:10	Cut your ploughs into swords and your hoes into spears. Let the weak say, ‘For I am strong.’
3:11	Phuma futhi uqhubekele phambili, zonke izizwe zomhlaba, futhi babuthane ndawonye. lapho uJehova uyakwenza ukuba bonke abanamandla bakho bafe.”
3:12	Mabasuke, bakhuphukele esigodini sikaJehoshafati. Ngoba ngizohlala khona, ukuze ahlulele zonke izizwe zomhlaba.
3:13	Thumela amasikela, ngoba ukuvuna sekuvuthiwe. Qhubeka futhi wehle, ngoba umshini wokunyathelisa ugcwele, igumbi lokucindezela liyachichima. Ngoba ububi babo bulokhu bukhula.
3:14	Izizwe, izizwe esigodini sokugawulwa zibe yizicucu: ngokuba usuku lweNkosi lufike ngokufanele esigodini sokugawulwa kube yizicucu.
3:15	Ilanga nenyanga kube mnyama, nezinkanyezi zibususile ubukhazikhazi bazo.
3:16	INkosi izabhonga iseZiyoni, izwakalise ilizwi layo iseJerusalema. Futhi izulu nomhlaba kuyonyakaziswa. UJehova uyakuba yithemba labantu bakhe nenqaba yabantwana bakwa-Israyeli.
3:17	niyokwazi ukuthi nginguJehova uNkulunkulu wenu, ohlala eSiyoni, ntaba yami engcwele. Futhi iJerusalema liyoba ngcwele, futhi abahambi ngeke besadabula kulo.
3:18	Futhi kuzokwenzeka, ngalolosuku, ukuthi izintaba zizoconsa ubumnandi, namagquma ayogobhoza ubisi. Futhi amanzi ayodabula kuyo yonke imifula yakwaJuda. Futhi umthombo uyophuma endlini yeNkosi, futhi iyonisela ugwadule lwameva.
3:19	IGibhithe liyoba yincithakalo, futhi i-Edomi iyoba yihlane elichithwayo, ngenxa yalokho abakwenzile ngokungafanele kubantwana bakwaJuda, futhi ngenxa yokuthi baye bachitha igazi elingenacala ezweni labo.
3:20	Futhi iJudiya liyohlalwa kuze kube phakade, neJerusalema izizukulwane ngezizukulwane.
3:21	Futhi ngizohlanza igazi labo, engangingayihlambululanga. Futhi uJehova uzohlala eSiyoni.