Joel 2:18–32

The Lord’s Promise of Restoration

¹⁸Then the Lord will pity his people

and jealously guard the honor of his land.

¹⁹The Lord will reply,

“Look! I am sending you grain and new wine and olive oil,

enough to satisfy your needs.

You will no longer be an object of mockery

among the surrounding nations.

²⁰I will drive away these armies from the north.

I will send them into the parched wastelands.

Those in the front will be driven into the Dead Sea,

and those at the rear into the Mediterranean.

The stench of their rotting bodies will rise over the land.”

Surely the Lord has done great things!

²¹Don’t be afraid, O land.

Be glad now and rejoice,

for the Lord has done great things.

²²Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field,

for the wilderness pastures will soon be green.

The trees will again be filled with fruit;

fig trees and grapevines will be loaded down once more.

²³Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem!

Rejoice in the Lord your God!

For the rain he sends demonstrates his faithfulness.

Once more the autumn rains will come,

as well as the rains of spring.

²⁴The threshing floors will again be piled high with grain,

and the presses will overflow with new wine and olive oil.

²⁵The Lord says, “I will give you back what you lost

to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts,

the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts.

It was I who sent this great destroying army against you.

²⁶Once again you will have all the food you want,

and you will praise the Lord your God,

who does these miracles for you.

Never again will my people be disgraced.

²⁷Then you will know that I am among my people Israel,

that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other.

Never again will my people be disgraced.

The Lord’s Promise of His Spirit

²⁸ “Then, after doing all those things,

I will pour out my Spirit upon all people.

Your sons and daughters will prophesy.

Your old men will dream dreams,

and your young men will see visions.

²⁹In those days I will pour out my Spirit

even on servants—men and women alike.

³⁰And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth—

blood and fire and columns of smoke.

³¹The sun will become dark,

and the moon will turn blood red

before that great and terrible day of the Lord arrives.

³²But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord

will be saved,

for some on Mount Zion in Jerusalem will escape,

just as the Lord has said.

These will be among the survivors

whom the Lord has called.