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He prophecieth of the coming and crueltie of their enemies. 13 An exhortation to move them to convert. 18 The love of God toward his people.

1.Blow ^athe trumpet in Zión, and shout in mine holie Mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the daie of the Lord is come: for it is at hand.

2.A ^bdaie of darkness, and of blackness, a daye of clouds, and obscurity, as the morning spread upon the mountains, so is there a ^cgreat people, and a mighty: there was none like it from the beginning, neither shal be any more after it, unto the years of many generations.

3.A fire devoureth before him, and behind him a flame burneth up: the land is as the garden of ^dEden before him, and behind him a desolate wilderness, so that nothing shal escape him.

4.The beholding of him is like the sight of horses, and like the horse men, so shal they run.

5.Like the noise of charets in the tops of the mountains shal they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, and as a mighty people prepared to the battle.

6.Before his face shal the people tremble: all faces ^eshal gather blackness.

7.They shal run like strong men, and go up to the wall like men of war, and every man shal go forward in his ways, and they shal not stay in their paths.

8.Neither shal one ^fthrust another, but every one shal walk in his path: & when they fall upon the sword, they shal not be wounded.

9.They shal run to and fro in the city: they shal run upon the wall: they shal clime up upon the houses, and enter in at the windows like the thief.

10.The earth shal tremble before him, the heavens shal shake, the ^gsun and the moon shalbe dark, and the stars shal withdraw their shining,

11.And the Lord shal ^hutter his voice before his hoste: for his hoste is very great: for he is strong that doeth his work: *for the daie of the Lord is great & very terrible, and who can abide it!

12.Therefore also now the Lord saith, Turn you unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, & with weeping, and with mourning,

13.And ⁱrent your heart, and not your clothes: and turn unto the Lord your God, for he is gracious, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

14.Who knoweth, if he will ^kreturn and repent and leave a blessing behind him, even a meat offering, and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?

15.Blow the trumpet in Zión, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly.

16.Gather the people: sanctify the congregation, gather the Elders: assemble the ^lchildren, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her bride chamber.

17.Let the Priests, the ministers of the Lord weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, ô Lord, and give not thine heritage into reproach that the heathen should rule over them. *Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

18.Then will the Lord be ^mjelouse over his land and spare his people.

19.Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, & wine, and oil, & you shalbe satisfied therewith: & I will nomore make you a reproach among the heathen,

20.But I will remove farreof from you the ⁿNorthern army, and I will drive him into a land, barren and desolate with his face toward the ^oEast sea, and his end to the utmost sea, and his stink shal come up, and his corruption shal ascend, because he hath exalted him self to do this:

21.Fear not, ô land, but be glad and rejoyce: for the Lord will do great things.

22.Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness are green: for the tre beareth her fruit: the figtre and the vine do give their force.

23.Be glad then, ye children of Zión, and rejoyce in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the rain of ^prighteousness, *and he will cause to come down for you the rain, even the first rain, and the later rain in the first month.

24.And the barns shalbe ful of wheat, and the presses shal abound with wine and oil.

25.And I will render you the years that the grashopper hath eaten, the canker worm and the caterpiller and the palmer worm, my great hoste which I sent among you.

26.So you shal eat and be satisfied and praise the Name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt marvelously with you: and my people shal never be ashamed.

27.Ye shal also know, that I am in the middes of Israél, and that I am the Lord your God and none other, and my people shal never be ashamed.

28.And afterward will I pour ^qout my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shal prophecie: your old men shal dream ^rdreams, and your young men shal see visions,

29.And also upon the servants, and upon the maids in those daies will I pour my Spirit.

30.And I will shewe ^swonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood and fire, and pillars of smoke.

31.The ^tsun shalbe turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible daie of the Lord come.

32.But whosoever shal call ^uon the Name of the Lord, shal be saved: for in mount Zión, and in Jerusalém shal be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, & in the ^xremnant, whom the Lord shal call.

Joel 2

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