Joel 2:20–25

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.