An Abridgeme[n]t of all the Canonical books of the olde Testament ::

A famine he dooth tel to come,
their frute for to destroy:
He wilth ye drūkards for to mourn,
their throtes should be ful dry.
Their wine, their oyle, their wheat and corn
should be destroyd wt blasting:
Therfore he wilth them to proclaim,
a common prayer and fasting.

The ii. chapiter.

Beholde a power shall come on them,
to ruine and to waste:
Therfore to turn and to repent,
he willeth them make haste.
And then the Lord to them wil turn,
and blesse them in his looue:
Their sonnes & daughters shal haue giftes
signes shalbe from aboue.

The iii. chapiter.

Controle he wil the enemies,
that had destroyd his land:
And serue them so as they had doon,
when they had them in hand.

Let Iuda now make spear and sheeld,
let Gentiles quake and fear:
The Lord him self wil pitche the field,
Hierusalem to cheer.

FINIS.

Thus Ioels tale is finished,
three Chapters ful of lore:
Now Amos dooth asmuche contain,
and twice so many more.

University of Virginia Library

The Prophecy of Ioel.

The first Chapiter.

The ii. chapiter.

The iii. chapiter.