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On the Hebrew text. The Hebrew follows the Masoretic Text in the Leningrad tradition, as represented by standard diplomatic editions in their main wording; distinctively copyrighted critical apparatus is not reproduced. Versification follows the MT.

The Book of Joel (MT) — Interlinear Summary

A consolidated companion to the Masoretic-Text Joel data set: each chapter rendered as a six-tier Hebrew reverse-interlinear (Hebrew · gloss · parsing · syntax · semantic force · lexical note), with per-verse discourse analysis and a chapter argument-outline.

This document gathers, for each annotated chapter, the theme, the argument outline, and the textual / exegetical note (the text_note of each file, with the shared critical-text preface removed since it is stated once above). Locusts, the day of the LORD, repentance, and the outpoured Spirit. The Hebrew follows the Masoretic Text in the Leningrad tradition (Westminster Leningrad Codex / OSHB); distinctively copyrighted apparatus is not reproduced, and Hebrew (MT) versification is used throughout.

Scope. 4 chapters · 73 verses · 958 annotated words.

Joel

Joel 1 — יואל 1

Theme. 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.

Outline.

Textual note. Joel 1 comprises 20 verses in MT order. Movement I (vv. 1-4) — The word of YHWH that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. The word of YHWH that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Hear this, you old men, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell you your children of it, and your children their children, and their children another generation. That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that. Movement II (vv. 5-8) — Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, beca. Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion. He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bare, and cast. Movement III (vv. 9-12) — The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of YH. The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of YHWH; the priests, YHWH's ministers, mourn. The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. Be you ashamed, O you husbandmen; howl, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is. Movement IV (vv. 13-16) — Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the alt. Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. Sanctify you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders all the inhabitants of the land the house of YHWH your God, and cry to. Movement V (vv. 17-20) — The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the. The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. O YHWH, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has. Where English printed Bibles divide verses differently, this annotation follows MT versification throughout.

Joel 2 — יואל 2

Theme. 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.

Outline.

Textual note. Joel 2 comprises 27 verses in MT order. Movement I (vv. 1-6) — Blow you the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: le. 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; A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there has not been ever the like, neither shall be. Movement II (vv. 7-12) — They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of wa. They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall,. Movement III (vv. 13-18) — And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to YHWH your God: f. And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to YHWH your God: for he gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Who knoweth he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; a meat offering and a drink offering to YHWH your God? Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn. Movement IV (vv. 19-24) — Yea, YHWH will answer and say to his people, Behold, I will send you cor. Yea, YHWH will answer and say to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: But I will remove far off from you the northern , and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the. Movement V (vv. 25-27) — And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the canke. And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of YHWH your God, that has dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. And you shall know that I in the midst of. Where English printed Bibles divide verses differently, this annotation follows MT versification throughout.

Joel 3 — יואל 3

Theme. 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.

Outline.

Textual note. Joel 3 comprises 5 verses in MT order. Movement I (vv. 1-4) — And it shall come to pass afterward, I will pour out my spirit upon all. 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: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire,. Movement II (vv. 5) — And it shall come to pass, whosoever shall call on the name of YHWH shal. 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. Where English printed Bibles divide verses differently, this annotation follows MT versification throughout.

Joel 4 — יואל 4

Theme. 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.

Outline.

Textual note. Joel 4 comprises 21 verses in MT order. Movement I (vv. 1-5) — For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again t. For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. And they have cast lots for. Movement II (vv. 6-10) — The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you sold t. The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you sold to the Grecians, that you might remove them far from their border. Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither you have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they. Movement III (vv. 11-15) — Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves to. Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause your mighty ones to come down, O YHWH. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is. Movement IV (vv. 16-20) — YHWH also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; an. YHWH also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but YHWH the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall you know that I YHWH your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. And it. Movement V (vv. 21) — For I will cleanse their blood I have not cleansed: for YHWH dwelleth in. For I will cleanse their blood I have not cleansed: for YHWH dwelleth in Zion. Where English printed Bibles divide verses differently, this annotation follows MT versification throughout.