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Joel 2

The Terrible Visitation

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 aBlow a trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, For the  bday of the LORD is coming; Surely it is near,

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A day of  adarkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn is spread over the mountains, So there is a  bgreat and mighty people; There has  cnever been anything like it, Nor will there be again after it To the years of many generations.

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A  afire consumes before them And behind them a flame burns. The land is  blike the garden of Eden before them But a  cdesolate wilderness behind them, And nothing at all escapes them.

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Their  aappearance is like the appearance of horses; And like war horses, so they run.

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 1With a  anoise as of chariots They leap on the tops of the mountains, Like the  2crackling of a  bflame of fire consuming the stubble, Like a mighty people arranged for battle.

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Before them the people are in  aanguish; All  bfaces  1turn pale.

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They run like mighty men, They climb the wall like soldiers; And they each  amarch  1in line, Nor do they deviate from their paths.

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They do not crowd each other, They march everyone in his path; When they  1burst through the  2defenses, They do not break ranks.

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They rush on the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the  ahouses, They  benter through the windows like a thief.

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Before them the earth  aquakes, The heavens tremble, The  bsun and the moon grow dark And the stars lose their brightness.

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The LORD  autters His voice before  bHis army; Surely His camp is very great, For  cstrong is he who carries out His word. The  dday of the LORD is indeed great and very awesome, And  ewho can endure it?

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"Yet even now," declares the LORD, " aReturn to Me with all your heart, And with  bfasting, weeping and mourning;

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And  arend your heart and not  byour garments." Now return to the LORD your God, For He is  cgracious and compassionate, Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness And  drelenting of evil.

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Who knows  awhether He will not turn and relent And leave a  bblessing behind Him, Even  ca grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God?

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 aBlow a trumpet in Zion,  bConsecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly,

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Gather the people,  asanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the  bbridegroom come out of his room And the bride out of her bridal chamber.

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Let the priests, the LORD'S ministers, Weep  abetween the porch and the altar, And let them say, " bSpare Your people, O LORD, And do not make Your inheritance a  creproach, A byword among the nations. Why should they among the peoples say, ` dWhere is their God?' "

Deliverance Promised

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Then the LORD  1will be  azealous for His land And  2will have  bpity on His people.

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The 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.

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"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."

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 aDo not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad, For the LORD has done  bgreat things.

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Do 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.

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So 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  3 dlatter rain  4as before.

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The threshing floors will be full of grain, And the vats will  aoverflow with the new wine and oil.

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"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.

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"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.

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"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

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1 aIt will come about after this That I will  bpour out My Spirit on all  2 cmankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young men will see visions.

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"Even on the  amale and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

The Day of the LORD

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"I will  adisplay wonders in the sky and on the earth, Blood, fire and columns of smoke.

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"The  asun will be turned into darkness And the moon into blood Before the  bgreat and awesome day of the LORD comes.

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"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.



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