Joel 1:3 “Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children,…”

Joel 1:3

Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

World English Bible

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

American Standard Version

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Geneva Bible 1599

Tell you your children of it, and let your children shew to their children, and their children to another generation.

Darby Translation

Tell your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation:

Young's Literal Translation

Concerning it to your sons talk ye, And your sons to their sons, And their sons to another generation.

Bible in Basic English

Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

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Cross references

“Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.”

Deuteronomy 6:7 Psalm 71:18 Psalm 145:4 Exodus 13:14 Psalm 78:3–8 Psalm 44:1

Deuteronomy 6:7 · BSB

And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Psalm 71:18 · BSB

Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

Psalm 145:4 · BSB

One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—

Exodus 13:14 · BSB

In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Psalm 78:3–8 · BSB

that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

Psalm 44:1 · BSB

We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?

4What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

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