2Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?


In Context

1 The Word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

2 Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

3 Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

Joel 1:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:2Hear 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?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:2Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your forefathers?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:2Hear 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?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:2Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:2Hear 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?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:2Hear 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?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:2Hear 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?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:2Hear this, ye aged ones, And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land, Hath this been in your days? Or in the days of your fathers?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:2Hear 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?