Joel 2:18-32

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The Lord’s Answer

¹⁸Then the Lord was jealous^(A) for his land
and took pity^(B) on his people.

¹⁹The Lord replied^[a] to them:

“I am sending you grain, new wine^(C) and olive oil,^(D)
enough to satisfy you fully;^(E)
never again will I make you
an object of scorn^(F) to the nations.

²⁰“I will drive the northern horde^(G) far from you,
    pushing it into a parched and barren land;
its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea
    and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea.
And its stench^(H) will go up;
    its smell will rise.”

Surely he has done great things!
²¹    Do not be afraid,^(I) land of Judah;
    be glad and rejoice.^(J)
Surely the Lord has done great things!^(K)
²²    Do not be afraid, you wild animals,
    for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green.^(L)
The trees are bearing their fruit;
    the fig tree^(M) and the vine^(N) yield their riches.^(O)
²³Be glad, people of Zion,
    rejoice^(P) in the Lord your God,
for he has given you the autumn rains
    because he is faithful.^(Q)
He sends you abundant showers,^(R)
    both autumn^(S) and spring rains,^(T) as before.
²⁴The threshing floors will be filled with grain;
    the vats will overflow^(U) with new wine^(V) and oil.

²⁵“I will repay you for the years the locusts^(W) have eaten^(X)—
    the great locust and the young locust,
    the other locusts and the locust swarm^[b]—
my great army^(Y) that I sent among you.
²⁶You will have plenty to eat, until you are full,^(Z)
    and you will praise^(AA) the name of the Lord your God,
    who has worked wonders^(AB) for you;
never again will my people be shamed.^(AC)
²⁷Then you will know^(AD) that I am in Israel,
    that I am the Lord^(AE) your God,
    and that there is no other;
never again will my people be shamed.^(AF)

The Day of the Lord

²⁸“And afterward,
    I will pour out my Spirit^(AG) on all people.^(AH)
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,^(AI)
    your old men will dream dreams,^(AJ)
    your young men will see visions.
²⁹Even on my servants,^(AK) both men and women,
    I will pour out my Spirit in those days.^(AL)
³⁰I will show wonders in the heavens^(AM)
    and on the earth,^(AN)
    blood and fire and billows of smoke.
³¹The sun will be turned to darkness^(AO)
    and the moon to blood
    before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.^(AP)
³²And everyone who calls
    on the name of the Lord^(AQ) will be saved;^(AR)
for on Mount Zion^(AS) and in Jerusalem
    there will be deliverance,^(AT)
    as the Lord has said,
even among the survivors^(AU)
    whom the Lord calls.^[c]^(AV)

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Footnotes

Joel 2:19 Or Lord will be jealous … / and take pity … / ¹⁹The Lord will reply
Joel 2:25 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.
Joel 2:32 In Hebrew texts 2:28-32 is numbered 3:1-5.