Joel 2:18–32

Yahweh Will Spare His People

¹⁸Then Yahweh ¹will be ^azealous for His land

And ²will ^bspare His people.

¹⁹Then Yahweh ¹will answer and say to His people,

“Behold, I am going to ^asend you grain, new wine, and oil,

And you will be satisfied in full with ²them;

And I will ^bnever again make you a reproach among the nations.

²⁰“But I will remove the ^anorthern military force far from you,

And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,

And its vanguard into the ^beastern sea,

And its rear guard into the ^cwestern sea.

And its ^dstench will rise up, and its foul smell will rise up,

For it has done great things.”

^21aDo not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad,

For Yahweh has done ^bgreat things.

²²Do not fear, beasts of the field,

For the ^apastures of the wilderness have turned green,

For the tree has borne its fruit;

The fig tree and the vine have yielded ¹their full force.

²³So rejoice, O ^asons of Zion,

And ^bbe glad in Yahweh your God,

For He has ^cgiven you ¹the early rain in righteousness.

And He has poured down for you the rain,

The ²early and ^3dlate rains ⁴as before.

²⁴The threshing floors will be full of grain,

And the vats will ^aoverflow with the new wine and oil.

²⁵“Then I will pay back to you in full for the years

That the swarming ^alocust has consumed,

The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust,

My great military force which I sent among you.

²⁶“And you will have plenty to ^aconsume and be satisfied

And ^bpraise the name of Yahweh your God,

Who has ^cdealt wondrously with you;

Then My people will ^dnever be put to shame.

²⁷“Thus you will ^aknow that I am in the midst of Israel,

And that I am Yahweh your God,

And there is ^bno other;

And My people will never be ^cput to shame.

Yahweh Will Pour Out His Spirit

²⁸“^1aAnd it will be afterwards

That I will ^bpour out My Spirit on all ^2cmankind;

And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy;

Your old men will dream dreams;

Your young men will see visions.

²⁹“Even on the ^amale slaves and female slaves

I will in those days pour out My Spirit.

Deliverance in the Day of Yahweh

³⁰“And I will ^aput wonders in the sky and on the earth,

Blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

³¹“The ^asun will be turned into darkness

And the moon into blood

Before the ^bgreat and awesome day of Yahweh comes.

³²“And it will be that ^aeveryone who calls on the name of Yahweh

Will ¹be delivered;

For ^bon Mount Zion and in Jerusalem

There will be those who ^cescape,

As Yahweh has said,

Even among the ^dsurvivors whom Yahweh calls.