9   Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
chakam²⁴⁵⁰ biyn⁹⁹⁵ biyn⁹⁹⁵ yada`<sup>3045</sup> derek<sup>1870</sup> Yhovah<sup>3068</sup> yashar<sup>3477</sup> tsaddiyq<sup>6662</sup> yalak<sup>3212</sup> pasha`⁶⁵⁸⁶ kashal³⁷⁸²

 

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?
shama`⁸⁰⁸⁵ zaqen²²⁰⁵ 'azan²³⁸ yashab³⁴²⁷ 'erets⁷⁷⁶ yowm³¹¹⁷ 'im⁵¹⁸ yowm³¹¹⁷ 'ab¹

3   Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
caphar⁵⁶⁰⁸ ben¹¹²¹ ben¹¹²¹ ben¹¹²¹ ben¹¹²¹ 'acher³¹² dowr¹⁷⁵⁵

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.
gazam¹⁵⁰¹ yether³⁴⁹⁹ 'arbeh⁶⁹⁷ 'akal³⁹⁸ 'arbeh⁶⁹⁷ yether³⁴⁹⁹ yekeq³²¹⁸ 'akal³⁹⁸ yekeq³²¹⁸ yether³⁴⁹⁹ chaciyl²⁶²⁵ 'akal³⁹⁸

5   Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
quwts⁶⁹⁷⁴ shikkowr⁷⁹¹⁰ bakah¹⁰⁵⁸ yalal³²¹³ shathah⁸³⁵⁴ yayin³¹⁹⁶ `aciyc⁶⁰⁷¹ karath³⁷⁷² peh⁶³¹⁰

6   For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
gowy¹⁴⁷¹ `alah<sup>5927</sup> 'erets<sup>776</sup> `atsuwm⁶⁰⁹⁹ micpar⁴⁵⁵⁷ shen⁸¹²⁷ shen⁸¹²⁷ 'ariy⁷³⁸ mthall`ah⁴⁹⁷³ labiy'³⁸³³

7   He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
suwm⁷⁷⁶⁰ gephen¹⁶¹² shammah⁸⁰⁴⁷ qtsaphah⁷¹¹¹ t'en⁸³⁸⁴ chasaph²⁸³⁴ chasaph²⁸³⁴ shalak⁷⁹⁹³ sariyg⁸²⁹⁹ laban³⁸³⁵

8   Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
'alah⁴²¹ bthuwlah¹³³⁰ chagar²²⁹⁶ saq⁸²⁴² ba`al<sup>1167</sup> na`uwr⁵²⁷¹