An Outpouring of the Spirit

28 After all of this

I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people.

Your sons and daughters will prophesy.

Your elderly will have revelatory dreams;

your young men will see prophetic visions.

29 Even on male and female servants

I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

30 I will produce portents both in the sky and on the earth –

blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

31 The sunlight will be turned to darkness

and the moon to the color of blood,

before the day of the Lord comes –

that great and terrible day!

32 It will so happen that

everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered.

For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive,

just as the Lord has promised;

the remnant will be those whom the Lord will call.

3 For look! In those days and at that time

I will return the exiles to Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Then I will gather all the nations,

and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat.

I will enter into judgment against them there

concerning my people Israel who are my inheritance,

whom they scattered among the nations.

They partitioned my land,

3 and they cast lots for my people.

They traded a boy for a prostitute;

they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

4 Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon?

Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia?

I will very quickly repay you for what you have done!

5 For you took my silver and my gold

and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

6 You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,

removing them far from their own country.

7 Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them.

I will repay you for what you have done!

8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah.

They will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.

Indeed, the Lord has spoken!