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⌂ ← JOEL 2:1–2:32 → ║ ©

The Book of Joel 2

2 Blow the shofar in Zion,

and shout on the mountain of my holiness!

Let all of the dwellers of the land tremble,

for the day of Yahweh is coming,

for it is near,

2 a day of darkness and gloom,

a day of clouds and thick darkness.

Like the dawn being spread upon the mountains,

a great and mighty people.

Like it there has not been from antiquity,

and after it there will not be again

to years of generation and generation.

3 A fire is devouring to its face,

and behind it a flame is burning.

To its face the land is like the garden of Eden,

but behind it is a wilderness of desolation,

and indeed, there is no escape from it.

4 Like the appearance of horses is its appearance,

and like steeds, thus they run.

5 Like the sound of chariots, they leap on the tops of the hills;

like the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble,

like a mighty people arrayed for war.

6 From its face peoples writhe;

all of their faces gather beauty.

7 They run like warriors;

like men of war, they climb the wall.

And they walk, a man in his ways,

and they do not pledge their paths.

8 And a man does not crowd his brother;

they walk, a man in his road.

Among the weapons they fall,

and they do not break off.

9 Upon the city they rush;

on the wall they run;

into the houses they climb;

through the windows they enter like thieves.

10 The earth shakes to their face,

the heavens tremble,

the sun and the moon become dark,

and the stars withdraw their brightness.

11 Yahweh utters his voice to the face of his army,

for very great is his camp,

for mighty is the doer of his word.

For the day of Yahweh is great and very fearful,

and who will endure it?

12 “Yet even now,” the declaration of Yahweh,

“return to me with all of your heart,

and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning.”

13 And tear your heart and not your garments,

and return to Yahweh your God.

For he is gracious and merciful,

long of nostrils and great of kindness,

and relenting from harm.

14 Who knows? He may turn and relent

and leave a blessing after him,

a grain offering and a drink offering for Yahweh your God.

15 Blow the shofar in Zion,

consecrate a fast,

call an assembly.

16 Gather the people,

consecrate the congregation,

assemble the elders,

gather the children

and the ones sucking the breasts.

May the bridegroom come out from his chamber

and the bride from her room.

17 Let the priests, the servants of Yahweh,

weep between the porch and the altar.

And let them say, “Have pity upon your people, Yahweh,

and do not give your inheritance to reproach,

for the nations to rule over them.

Why should they say among the peoples,

‘Where is their God?’ ”

18 Then Yahweh was jealous for his land,

and he had pity on his people.

19 And Yahweh answered and said to his people,

“Behold me, sending to you grain and new wine and oil,

and you will have enough with it,

and I will no longer make you a reproach among the nations.

20 And I will distance the northerner from upon you,

and I will banish him into a land of dryness and desolation,

his face into the eastern sea

and his back into the western sea.

And his stench will rise,

and his odor will rise,

for he has been great in doing.”

21 Do not fear, land! Be glad and rejoice,

for Yahweh has been great in doing.

22 Do not fear, beasts of the field,

for the pastures of the wilderness have sprouted,

for the tree has borne its fruit,

the fig tree and the vine have yielded their strength.

23 And be glad, sons of Zion,

and rejoice in Yahweh your God,

for he has given to you the early rain for vindication

and has brought down the shower to you,

the early rain and the late rain in the first.

24 And the threshing floors will be full of grain,

and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

“And I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust, the hopping locust

and the destroying locust and the cutting locust have eaten—

my great army that I sent among you.

26 And eating, you will eat and be full,

and you will praise the name of Yahweh your God,

who has done with you working wondrously,

and forever my people will not feel shame.

27 And you will know that I am in the midst of Israel,

that I am Yahweh your God

and there is no other,

and forever my people will not feel shame.

28 And it will happen after this,

I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,

and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,

your old men will dream dreams,

your young men will see visions.

29 And even on male servants and on female servants,

in those days I will pour out my Spirit.

30 And I will give wonders in the heavens and on the earth,

blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

31 The sun will be turned into darkness

and the moon into blood,

to the face of the coming of the great and terrible day of Yahweh.

32 And it will be, everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be saved.

For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be escape,

just as Yahweh has said,

and among the survivors

whom Yahweh is calling.

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