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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Sound the ram's horn in Zion! Sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Tremble, all of you inhabitants of the land, because the Day of the LORD is coming. Oh, how near it is! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2A day of doom and gloom, a day of clouds and shadows like the dawn spreads out to cover the mountains— a people strong and robust. Never has there been anything like it, neither will anything follow to compare with it, even through the lifetime of generation upon generation." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"A fire blazes in their presence, and behind them a conflagration rages. Before they come, the land is like the garden in Eden; after they leave, there is only a barren wasteland. Indeed, nothing escapes them. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4As to their form, they're like horses; and like chariot horses, how they can run! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They leap like the rumbling of chariots echoing from mountain tops, like the roar of wild fire that devours the chaff, as an army firmly established in battle array. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The people are terrified in their presence; every face grows pale. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They run like elite soldiers, climbing ramparts like men trained for war. Each man advances in proper order, never breaking rank. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Neither does a man crowd his fellow soldier; each one marches in his own path. When they fall by the sword they are not injured. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9They swarm through the city, running upon its ramparts. Climbing atop the houses, they enter through windows like a thief." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"The land quivers in their presence; even the heavens shake. The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will stop shining. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The LORD will shout in the presence of his forces, because his encampment is very great; for powerful is he who carries out his message. Truly the Day of the LORD is great, and very terrifying. Who will be able to survive it?" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Yet even now," declares the LORD, "Turn back to me with your whole heart, with fasting, tears, and mourning. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Tear your hearts, not your garments; and turn back to the LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to become angry, overflowing in gracious love, and grieves about this evil. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Who knows? He will turn back and relent, will he not, leaving behind a blessing, even a grain offering and drink offering for the LORD your God?" |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Sound the ram's horn in Zion! Dedicate a fast and call for a solemn assembly! |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Gather the people! Dedicate the congregation! Bring in the elders. Gather the youngsters and even the nursing infants. Call the bridegroom from his wedding preparations, and the bride from her dressing room. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17As they serve between the porch and the altar, let the priests and ministers of the LORD weep and pray: 'Spare your people, LORD, and do not make your heritage a disgrace so that nations ridicule them. Why should they say among the people, "Where is their God?"'" |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Then the LORD will show great concern for his land, and will have compassion on his people. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The LORD will say to his people, "Look! I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be content with them. I will no longer cause you to be a disgrace among the nations." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"I will remove the northerners from you, driving them to a barren and desolate land— the front toward the Dead Sea and the back toward the Mediterranean. Their stench will rise, and their stinking odor will ascend, because they have done great things." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"Stop being afraid, land! Rejoice and be glad, because the LORD will do great things. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Stop being afraid, beasts of the field, because the desert pastures will bloom, the trees will bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine will deliver their wealth. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And so be glad, children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, because he has given you the right amount of early rain, and he will cause the rain to fall for you, both the early rain and the later rain as before. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The threshing floors will be smothered in grain, and the vats will overflow with wine and oil. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"Then I will restore to you the years that the locust swarm devoured, as did the young locust, the other locusts, and the ravaging locust, that great army of mine that I sent among you. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26You will have plenty to eat, and will be fully satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has performed wonders specifically for you. And my people will never be ashamed. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27As a result, you will know that I am in the midst of Israel; that I myself am the LORD your God— and there is none other! And my people will never be ashamed." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28 "Then it will come about at a later time that I will pour out my Spirit on every person. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your elderly people will dream dreams, and your young people will see visions. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Also at that time I will pour out my Spirit upon men and women servants. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30I will display warnings in the heavens, and on the earth blood, fire, and columns of smoke. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31The sun will be given over to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and terrifying Day of the LORD. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32And everyone who calls upon the name of the LORD will be delivered. For as the LORD has said, 'In Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, the survivors whom the LORD is calling.'" |
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