Joel 2:18–32

Deliverance Promised

¹⁸Then the Lord ¹will be ^azealous for His land

And ²will have ^bpity on His people.

¹⁹The Lord 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 army 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 arise and its foul smell will come up,

For it has done great things.”

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

For the Lord 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 ¹in full.

²³So rejoice, O ^asons of Zion,

And ^bbe glad in the Lord your God;

For He has ^cgiven you ¹the early rain for your vindication.

And He has poured down for you the rain,

The ²early and ^3dlatter rain 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 make up to you for the years

That the swarming ^alocust has eaten,

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

My great army which I sent among you.

²⁶“You will have plenty to ^aeat and be satisfied

And ^bpraise the name of the Lord 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 the Lord your God,

And there is ^bno other;

And My people will never be ^cput to shame.

The Promise of the Spirit

²⁸“^1aIt will come about after this

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

And your sons and daughters will prophesy,

Your old men will dream dreams,

Your young men will see visions.

²⁹“Even on the ^amale and female servants

I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

The Day of the Lord

³⁰“I will ^adisplay 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 the Lord comes.

³²“And it will come about that ^awhoever calls on the name of the Lord

Will be delivered;

For ^bon Mount Zion and in Jerusalem

There will be those who ^cescape,

As the Lord has said,

Even among the ^dsurvivors whom the Lord calls.