Joel 1:3
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?
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.
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
- KJV
- Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
- WEB
- Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.
- ASV
- Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
- DARBY
- Tell your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation:
- BLB
- Give account of it to your⁺ sons, and your⁺ sons to their sons, and their sons to the generation after.
- ÅB
- Dere skal fortelle om det til deres barn, og deres barn til sine barn, og deres barn til en kommende slekt.
- OTB
- Fortell dette til deres barn,
og la dem fortelle det til sine barn,
og deres etterkommere til den neste generasjonen. - B1930
- I skal fortelle om det til eders barn, og eders barn til sine barn, og deres barn til en kommende slekt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 6:7
And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Read in contextPsalms 71:18
Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
Read in contextPsalms 145:4
One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
Read in contextPsalms 78:3–8
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
Read in contextExodus 13:14
In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Read in contextExodus 10:1–2
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them,
Read in contextIsaiah 38:19
The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
Read in contextPsalms 44:1
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
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