Joel 1:3
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Joel 1:3 in other translations
| BSB | Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | Concerning it to your sons talk ye, And your sons to their sons, And their sons to another generation. |
| DARBY | Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation: |
| BBE | Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation. |
| Webster | Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. |
What does Joel 1:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joel 1:2-3
2-3. A spirited introduction calling attention. old men--the best judges in question concerning the past (De 32:7; Job 32:7). Hath this been, &c.--that is, Hath any so grievous a calamity as this ever been before? No such plague of locusts had been since the ones in Egypt. Ex 10:14 is not at variance with this verse, which refers to Judea, in which Joel says there had been no such devastation before.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joel 1:1-7
A plague of locusts. (Joel 1:1-7) All sorts of people are called to lament it. (Joel 1:8-13) They are to look to God. (Joel 1:14-20) Verses 1-7 The most aged could not remember such calamities as were about to take place. Armies of insects were coming upon the land to eat the fruits of it. It is expressed so as to apply also to the destruction of the country by a foreign enemy, and seems to refer to the devastations…
Joel 1:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Joel 1:3
- Deuteronomy 6:7
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
- Psalms 71:18
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
- Psalms 145:4
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
- Psalms 78:3-8
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For 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, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: …
- Exodus 13:14
And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
- Exodus 10:1-2
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him: And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the Lord.
- Isaiah 38:19
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
- Psalms 44:1
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
- Joshua 4:21-22
And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
- Joshua 4:6-7
That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
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Context
- Joel 1:2
Hear 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?
- Joel 1:3
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
- Joel 1:4
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
Joel 1:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | De esto contaréis á vuestros hijos, y vuestros hijos á sus hijos, y sus hijos á la otra generación. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Racontez-le à vos fils, et vos fils à leurs fils, et leurs fils à une autre génération: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Erzählet davon euren Kindern, und eure Kinder ihren Kindern, und ihre Kinder dem folgenden Geschlecht: |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Super hoc filiis vestris narrate, et filii vestri filiis suis, et filii eorum generationi alteræ. |