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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "The word of the Lord, that came to Joel, the son of Phatuel.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Hear 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?",
      "citation": "Joel 1:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take delight in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "For a nation come up upon my land, strong, and without number: his teeth are like the teeth of a lion: and his cheek teeth as of a lion's whelp.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "He hath laid my vineyard waste, and hath pilled off the bark of my fig tree: he hath stripped it bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned:",
      "citation": "Joel 1:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of your God.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:",
      "citation": "Joel 1:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?",
      "citation": "Joel 1:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Why did the beasts groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness: and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the country.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Yea, and the beasts of the field have looked up to thee, as a garden bed that thirsteth after rain, for the springs of waters are dried up, and fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness.",
      "citation": "Joel 1:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
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