Joel 2:18–32

¹⁸And let Jehovah be zealous for His land, And have pity on His people. ¹⁹Let Jehovah answer and say to His people, ‘Lo, I am sending to you the corn, And the new wine, and the oil, And ye have been satisfied with it, And I make you no more a reproach among nations, ²⁰And the northern I put far off from you, And have driven him unto a land dry and desolate, With his face unto the eastern sea, And his rear unto the western sea, And come up hath his stink, And come up doth his stench, For he hath exerted himself to work. ²¹Do not fear, O land! joy and rejoice, For Jehovah hath exerted Himself to work. ²²Do not fear, O cattle of the field! For sprung forth have pastures of a wilderness, For the tree hath borne its fruit, Fig-tree and vine have given their strength! ²³And ye sons of Zion, joy and rejoice, In Jehovah your God, For He hath given to you the Teacher for righteousness, And causeth to come down to you a shower, Sprinkling and gathered—in the beginning. ²⁴And full have been the floors with pure corn, And overflown have the presses with new wine and oil. ²⁵And I have recompensed to you the years That consume did the locust, the cankerworm, And the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, My great force that I did send against you. ²⁶And ye have eaten, eating and being satisfied, And have praised the name of Jehovah your God, Who hath dealt with you wonderfully, And not ashamed are My people to the age. ²⁷And ye have known that in the midst of Israel am I, And I am Jehovah your God, and there is none else, And not ashamed are My people to the age.

²⁸And it hath come to pass afterwards, I do pour out My Spirit on all flesh, And prophesied have your sons and your daughters, Your old men do dream dreams, Your young men do see visions. ²⁹And also on the men-servants, and on the maid-servants, In those days I do pour out My Spirit. ³⁰And I have given wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, Blood and fire, and columns of smoke. ³¹The sun is turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful. ³²And it hath come to pass, Every one who calleth in the name of Jehovah is delivered, For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there is an escape, As Jehovah hath said, And among the remnants whom Jehovah is calling!

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