Joel 2:18–32

The Response and Promise of Yahweh

¹⁸Then Yahweh became jealous for his land

and took pity on his people.

¹⁹And Yahweh answered and said to his people,

“Look at me, I am sending to you

grain, new wine, and olive oil,

and you will be satisfied by it.

I will not give you over any more

as a disgrace among the nations.

²⁰The northerners^s

I will remove from you;

I will drive them to a desert

and desolate land,

its^t front to the eastern sea,

and its rear into the western sea;

its stench and odor will rise up

because he^u has done great things.

²¹Do not fear, O land,

rejoice and be glad,

because Yahweh has done great things.

²²Do not fear, wild animals of the field,

because the pastures of the desert have put forth new green shoots,

because the tree has produced its fruit,

the fig tree and the vine

have yielded their produce.

²³Be glad, O children of Zion,

be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God,

because he has given for you

the autumn rains for your righteousness,^v

and he has poured down^w for you rainwater,

the autumn and spring rains, as before.

²⁴The threshing floors will be full with grain,

and the vats will overflow

with new wine and olive oil.

²⁵I will repay you the years

that the locust has eaten,

the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,

my mighty troops that I sent against you.

²⁶And you will eat abundantly and be satisfied,

and praise the name of Yahweh your God,

who has dealt with you wondrously.^x

My people will never be ashamed.^y

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

and I am Yahweh,

your God, and there is no other.

My people will never be ashamed again.^z

Yahweh’s Spirit Poured Out

^28a And it will happen afterward thus:

I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,

and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,

and your elders will dream dreams;

your young men shall see visions.

²⁹And also on the male slaves and on the female slaves,

I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

³⁰And I will set^b wonders in the heavens, and on earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. ³¹The sun will be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh. ³²And it will happen—everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be rescued, because on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape,^c as Yahweh said, and among the survivors whom Yahweh is calling.