- 1 Joel 1 1 Joel 1 (20 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. The middle of the chapter continues: Be you ashamed, O you husbandmen; howl, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. It closes: The beasts of the field cry also to you: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
- 2 Joel 2 2 Joel 2 (27 verses in the MT) opens: Blow you the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of YHWH cometh, for nigh at hand; The middle of the chapter continues: Who knoweth he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; a meat offering and a drink offering to YHWH your God? It closes: And you shall know that I in the midst of Israel, and I YHWH your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
- 3 Joel 3 3 Joel 3 (5 verses in the MT) opens: And it shall come to pass afterward, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: The middle of the chapter continues: And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. It closes: And it shall come to pass, whosoever shall call on the name of YHWH shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as YHWH has said, and in the remnant whom YHWH shall call.
- 4 Joel 4 4 Joel 4 (21 verses in the MT) opens: For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, The middle of the chapter continues: Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause your mighty ones to come down, O YHWH. It closes: For I will cleanse their blood I have not cleansed: for YHWH dwelleth in Zion.