Joel 2:18-32
Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh Will Spare His People
18 Then Yahweh [a]will be (A)zealous for His land
And [b]will (B)spare His people.
19 Then Yahweh [c]will answer and say to His people,
“Behold, I am going to (C)send you grain, new wine, and oil,
And you will be satisfied in full with [d]them;
And I will (D)never again make you a reproach among the nations.
20 But I will remove the (E)northern military force far from you,
And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,
And its vanguard into the (F)eastern sea,
And its rear guard into the (G)western sea.
And its (H)stench will rise up, and its foul smell will rise up,
For it has done great things.”
21 (I)Do not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad,
For Yahweh has done (J)great things.
22 Do not fear, beasts of the field,
For the (K)pastures of the wilderness have turned green,
For the tree has borne its fruit;
The fig tree and the vine have yielded [e]their full force.
23 So rejoice, O (L)sons of Zion,
And (M)be glad in Yahweh your God,
For He has (N)given you [f]the early rain in righteousness.
And He has poured down for you the rain,
The [g]early and [h](O)late rains [i]as before.
24 The threshing floors will be full of grain,
And the vats will (P)overflow with the new wine and oil.
25 “Then I will pay back to you in full for the years
That the swarming (Q)locust has consumed,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust,
My great military force which I sent among you.
26 And you will have plenty to (R)consume and be satisfied
And (S)praise the name of Yahweh your God,
Who has (T)dealt wondrously with you;
Then My people will (U)never be put to shame.
27 Thus you will (V)know that I am in the midst of Israel,
And that I am Yahweh your God,
And there is (W)no other;
And My people will never be (X)put to shame.
Yahweh Will Pour Out His Spirit
28 “[j](Y)And it will be afterwards
That I will (Z)pour out My Spirit on all [k](AA)mankind;
And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy;
Your old men will dream dreams;
Your young men will see visions.
29 Even on the (AB)male slaves and female slaves
I will in those days pour out My Spirit.
Deliverance in the Day of Yahweh
30 And I will (AC)put wonders in the sky and on the earth,
Blood, fire, and columns of smoke.
31 The (AD)sun will be turned into darkness
And the moon into blood
Before the (AE)great and awesome day of Yahweh comes.
32 And it will be that (AF)everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh
Will [l]be delivered;
For (AG)on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
There will be those who (AH)escape,
As Yahweh has said,
Even among the (AI)survivors whom Yahweh calls.
Footnotes
- Joel 2:18 Or was zealous
- Joel 2:18 Or had spared
- Joel 2:19 Or answered and said
- Joel 2:19 Lit it
- Joel 2:22 Or their excellence
- Joel 2:23 Autumn; or possibly word play to mean the teacher for righteousness, cf. Is 30:20
- Joel 2:23 Autumn
- Joel 2:23 Spring
- Joel 2:23 As in ancient versions; Heb in the first
- Joel 2:28 Ch 3:1 in Heb
- Joel 2:28 Lit flesh
- Joel 2:32 Lit escape
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