Bible in Basic English
"The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel."
— Joel 1:1, Bible in Basic English
“The Word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.”
The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.
What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.