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the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Joel 1:3
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Christian Standard Bible®
Tell your children about it,and let your children tell their children,and their children the next generation.
Tell your children about it,and let your children tell their children,and their children the next generation.
Hebrew Names Version
Tell your children about it, And have your children tell their children, And their children, another generation.
Tell your children about it, And have your children tell their children, And their children, another generation.
King James Version
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
English Standard Version
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
New American Standard Bible
Tell your sons about it, And have your sons tell their sons, And their sons the next generation.
Tell your sons about it, And have your sons tell their sons, And their sons the next generation.
New Century Version
Tell your children about these things, let your children tell their children, and let your grandchildren tell their children.
Tell your children about these things, let your children tell their children, and let your grandchildren tell their children.
Amplified Bible
Tell your children about it, And let your children tell their children, And their children the next generation.
Tell your children about it, And let your children tell their children, And their children the next generation.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Tell you your children of it, and let your children shew to their children, and their children to another generation.
Tell you your children of it, and let your children shew to their children, and their children to another generation.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Tell your sons about it, And let your sons tell their sons, And their sons the next generation.
Tell your sons about it, And let your sons tell their sons, And their sons the next generation.
Legacy Standard Bible
Recount about it to your sons,And let your sons recount about it to their sons,And their sons to the next generation.
Recount about it to your sons,And let your sons recount about it to their sons,And their sons to the next generation.
Berean Standard Bible
Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children-and their children, the next generation.
Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children-and their children, the next generation.
Contemporary English Version
Tell our children! Let it be told to our grandchildren and their children too.
Tell our children! Let it be told to our grandchildren and their children too.
Complete Jewish Bible
Tell your children about it, and have them tell it to theirs, and have them tell the next generation.
Tell your children about it, and have them tell it to theirs, and have them tell the next generation.
Darby Translation
Tell your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation:
Tell your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation:
Easy-to-Read Version
You will tell these things to your children, and your children will tell their children, and your grandchildren will tell the people of the next generation.
You will tell these things to your children, and your children will tell their children, and your grandchildren will tell the people of the next generation.
George Lamsa Translation
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
Good News Translation
Tell your children about it; they will tell their children, who in turn will tell the next generation.
Tell your children about it; they will tell their children, who in turn will tell the next generation.
Lexham English Bible
Tell it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the following generation.
Tell it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the following generation.
Literal Translation
Tell your sons about it, and your sons to their sons, and their sons to another generation.
Tell your sons about it, and your sons to their sons, and their sons to another generation.
American Standard Version
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Bible in Basic English
Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.
Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
King James Version (1611)
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Of this thyng tell your children, and let your children [shewe it] to their children, and their children to [their] posteritie afterwarde.
Of this thyng tell your children, and let your children [shewe it] to their children, and their children to [their] posteritie afterwarde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Tell your children concerning them, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Tell your children concerning them, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
English Revised Version
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
World English Bible
Tell your children about it, And have your children tell their children, And their children, another generation.
Tell your children about it, And have your children tell their children, And their children, another generation.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Of this thing telle ye to your sones, and your sones telle to her sones, and the sones of hem telle to another generacioun.
Of this thing telle ye to your sones, and your sones telle to her sones, and the sones of hem telle to another generacioun.
Update Bible Version
Tell your sons of it, and [let] your sons [tell] their sons, and their sons another generation.
Tell your sons of it, and [let] your sons [tell] their sons, and their sons another generation.
Webster's Bible Translation
Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
New English Translation
Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.
Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.
New King James Version
Tell your children about it, Let your children tell their children, And their children another generation.
Tell your children about it, Let your children tell their children, And their children another generation.
New Living Translation
Tell your children about it in the years to come, and let your children tell their children. Pass the story down from generation to generation.
Tell your children about it in the years to come, and let your children tell their children. Pass the story down from generation to generation.
New Life Bible
Tell your sons about it, and let your sons tell their sons, and their sons tell the next sons-to-come.
Tell your sons about it, and let your sons tell their sons, and their sons tell the next sons-to-come.
New Revised Standard
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Concerning it, to your children, tell ye the story, - and your children, to their children, and their children, to the generation following: -
Concerning it, to your children, tell ye the story, - and your children, to their children, and their children, to the generation following: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
Revised Standard Version
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Young's Literal Translation
Concerning it to your sons talk ye, And your sons to their sons, And their sons to another generation.
Concerning it to your sons talk ye, And your sons to their sons, And their sons to another generation.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Tell youre children of it, & let them shewe it vnto their children, & so they to certifie their posterite therof.
Tell youre children of it, & let them shewe it vnto their children, & so they to certifie their posterite therof.
Contextual Overview
1 God 's Message to Joel son of Pethuel: Attention, elder statesmen! Listen closely, everyone, whoever and wherever you are! Have you ever heard of anything like this? Has anything like this ever happened before—ever? Make sure you tell your children, and your children tell their children, And their children their children. Don't let this message die out. 4 What the chewing locust left, the gobbling locust ate; What the gobbling locust left, the munching locust ate; What the munching locust left, the chomping locust ate. 5Sober up, you drunks! Get in touch with reality—and weep! Your supply of booze is cut off. You're on the wagon, like it or not. My country's being invaded by an army invincible, past numbering, Teeth like those of a lion, fangs like those of a tiger. It has ruined my vineyards, stripped my orchards, And clear-cut the country. The landscape's a moonscape.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Exodus 10:1, Exodus 10:2, Exodus 13:14, Deuteronomy 6:7, Joshua 4:6, Joshua 4:7, Joshua 4:21, Joshua 4:22, Psalms 44:1, Psalms 71:18, Psalms 78:3-8, Psalms 145:4, Isaiah 38:19
Reciprocal: Psalms 48:13 - that ye Psalms 78:4 - We will Psalms 78:6 - who Jeremiah 2:3 - all that Hosea 9:2 - floor Joel 2:2 - there
Cross-References
Job 38:19
"Do you know where Light comes from and where Darkness lives So you can take them by the hand and lead them home when they get lost? Why, of course you know that. You've known them all your life, grown up in the same neighborhood with them!
"Do you know where Light comes from and where Darkness lives So you can take them by the hand and lead them home when they get lost? Why, of course you know that. You've known them all your life, grown up in the same neighborhood with them!
Psalms 33:6
The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.
The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.
Psalms 97:11
Light-seeds are planted in the souls of God's people, Joy-seeds are planted in good heart-soil.
Light-seeds are planted in the souls of God's people, Joy-seeds are planted in good heart-soil.
Matthew 8:3
Jesus reached out and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be clean." Then and there, all signs of the leprosy were gone. Jesus said, "Don't talk about this all over town. Just quietly present your healed body to the priest, along with the appropriate expressions of thanks to God. Your cleansed and grateful life, not your words, will bear witness to what I have done."
Jesus reached out and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be clean." Then and there, all signs of the leprosy were gone. Jesus said, "Don't talk about this all over town. Just quietly present your healed body to the priest, along with the appropriate expressions of thanks to God. Your cleansed and grateful life, not your words, will bear witness to what I have done."
John 1:9
The Life-Light was the real thing: Every person entering Life he brings into Light. He was in the world, the world was there through him, and yet the world didn't even notice. He came to his own people, but they didn't want him. But whoever did want him, who believed he was who he claimed and would do what he said, He made to be their true selves, their child-of-God selves. These are the God-begotten, not blood-begotten, not flesh-begotten, not sex-begotten.
The Life-Light was the real thing: Every person entering Life he brings into Light. He was in the world, the world was there through him, and yet the world didn't even notice. He came to his own people, but they didn't want him. But whoever did want him, who believed he was who he claimed and would do what he said, He made to be their true selves, their child-of-God selves. These are the God-begotten, not blood-begotten, not flesh-begotten, not sex-begotten.
John 3:19
"This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is."
"This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is."
John 11:43
Then he shouted, "Lazarus, come out!" And he came out, a cadaver, wrapped from head to toe, and with a kerchief over his face. Jesus told them, "Unwrap him and let him loose."
Then he shouted, "Lazarus, come out!" And he came out, a cadaver, wrapped from head to toe, and with a kerchief over his face. Jesus told them, "Unwrap him and let him loose."
Ephesians 5:8
You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it! The good, the right, the true—these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.
You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it! The good, the right, the true—these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.
1 John 1:5
This, in essence, is the message we heard from Christ and are passing on to you: God is light, pure light; there's not a trace of darkness in him.
This, in essence, is the message we heard from Christ and are passing on to you: God is light, pure light; there's not a trace of darkness in him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Tell ye your children of it,.... Give them a particular account of it; describe the creatures and their number as near as you can; say when they begun and how long they continued, and what devastations they made, and what was the cause and reason of such a judgment, your sins and transgressions:
and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children other generation; or, "to the generation following" l; let it be handed down from one generation to another that it may be a caution to future posterity how they behave and lest they bring down the like awful judgments on them. What this referred to was as follows:
l לדור אחר "posteritati sequenti", Vatablus; "generationi posterae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Tarnovius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Tell ye your children of it - In the order of God’s goodness, generation was to declare to generation the wonders of His love. “He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children, that the generation to come might know them, the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children that they might ... not forget the works of God” Psalms 78:5-7. This tradition of thankful memories God, as the Psalmist says, enforced in the law; “Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, but teach them thy sons and thy sons’ sons” (Deuteronomy 4:9; add Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Deuteronomy 11:19). This was the end of the memorial acts of the ritual, that their sons might inquire the meaning of them, the fathers tell them God’s wonders Deuteronomy 6:20-24. Now contrariwise, they are, generation to generation, to tell concerning it, this message of unheard-of woe and judgment. The memory of God’s deeds of love should have stirred them to gratitude; now He transmits to them memories of woe, that they might entreat God against them, and break off the sins which entail them.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joel 1:3. Tell ye your children of it — To heighten the effect, he still conceals the subject, and informs them that it is such as should be handed down from father to son through all generations.
