Joel 1:2

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Joel 1:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:

2 Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?

3 Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

4 What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

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Psalms 49:1

Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,

Isaiah 34:1

Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.

Jeremiah 5:21

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Hosea 5:1

“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

Amos 3:1

Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

Amos 5:1

Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

Micah 1:2

Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.

Micah 3:1

Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

Micah 3:9

Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,

Matthew 13:9

He who has ears, let him hear.”

Revelation 2:7

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.

Job 8:8

Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

Job 12:12

Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

Job 15:10

Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.

Job 21:7

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

Deuteronomy 4:32

Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

Deuteronomy 4:33

Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

Deuteronomy 4:35

You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

Isaiah 7:17

The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”

Jeremiah 30:7

How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.

Daniel 12:1

“At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.

Matthew 24:21

For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.