Joel 1:2

Joel chapter 1 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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?

King James Version · 1611

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?

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?

v.1The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

v.2This passage

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

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Joel 1:14
Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
Isaiah 7:17
Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—even the king of Assyria.
Matthew 13:9
He that hath ears, let him hear.
Jeremiah 30:7
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?