| Chapter | Verse/s | Verse Summary |
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| 1. | (1) | Joel the son of Pethuel |
| (2-4) | Hath it been in your days or days of your fathers | |
| (5) | Awake ye drunkards and weep | |
| (6-7) | For a nation is come up upon my land | |
| (8-10) | Lament like a virgin for husband of her youth | |
| (11-12) | Be ye ashamed O ye husbandmen | |
| (13) | Lament ye priests | |
| (14) | Call a solemn assembly gather the elders | |
| (15-18) | The day of the Lord is at hand | |
| (19-20) | O Lord, to thee will I cry |
| 2. | (1-2) | A day of darkness and of gloominess |
| (3-11) | And behind them a desolate wilderness | |
| (12-14) | Rend you hears not your garments | |
| (15-17) | Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly | |
| (18-20) | Then will the Lord be jealous ... pity his people | |
| (21-27) | Ye shall know I am in the midst of Israel | |
| (28-31) | I will pout our my spirit upon all flesh | |
| (32) | Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord |
| 3. | (1-3) | I will also gather all nations |
| (4-8) | What have ye to do with me O Tyre, Zidon | |
| (9-15) | Prepare war wake up the mighty men | |
| (16-18) | The Lord also shall roar out of Zion | |
| (19-21) | Because they have shed innocent blood |