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Joel 2 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:1 - Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear, for the day of the LORD is about to come. Indeed, it is near!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:2 - It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army - there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 - Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness - for nothing escapes them!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:4 - They look like horses; they charge ahead like war horses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:5 - They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops, like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble, like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:6 - People writhe in fear when they see them. All of their faces turn pale with fright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:7 - They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter their path.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:8 - They do not jostle one another; each of them marches straight ahead. They burst through the city defenses and do not break ranks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:9 - They rush into the city; they scale its walls. They climb up into the houses; they go in through the windows like a thief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10 - The earth quakes before them; the sky reverberates. The sun and the moon grow dark; the stars refuse to shine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:11 - The voice of the LORD thunders as he leads his army. Indeed, his warriors are innumerable; Surely his command is carried out! Yes, the day of the LORD is awesome and very terrifying - who can survive it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:12 - "Yet even now," the LORD says, "return to me with all your heart - with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your garments!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:13 - Return to the LORD your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love - often relenting from calamitous punishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:14 - Who knows? Perhaps he will be compassionate and grant a reprieve, and leave blessing in his wake - a meal offering and a drink offering for you to offer to the LORD your God!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:15 - Blow the trumpet in Zion. Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly!

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 - Gather the people; sanctify an assembly! Gather the elders; gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her private quarters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:17 - Let the priests, those who serve the LORD, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say, "Have pity, O LORD, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, "Where is their God?"

Deliverance Promised

(Act 2:17 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:18 - Then the LORD became zealous for his land; he had compassion on his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:19 - The LORD responded to his people, "Look! I am about to restore your grain as well as fresh wine and olive oil. You will be fully satisfied. I will never again make you an object of mockery among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:20 - I will remove the one from the north far from you. I will drive him out to a dry and desolate place. Those in front will be driven eastward into the Dead Sea, and those in back westward into the Mediterranean Sea. His stench will rise up as a foul smell." Indeed, the LORD has accomplished great things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:21 - Do not fear, my land! Rejoice and be glad, because the LORD has accomplished great things!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:22 - Do not fear, wild animals! For the pastures of the wilderness are again green with grass. Indeed, the trees bear their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield to their fullest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:23 - Citizens of Zion, rejoice! Be glad because of what the LORD your God has done! For he has given to you the early rains as vindication. He has sent to you the rains - both the early and the late rains as formerly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:24 - The threshing floors are full of grain; the vats overflow with fresh wine and olive oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:25 - I will make up for the years that the 'arbeh-locust consumed your crops - the yeleq-locust, the hasil-locust, and the gazam-locust - my great army that I sent against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:26 - You will have plenty to eat, and your hunger will be fully satisfied; you will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has acted wondrously in your behalf. My people will never again be put to shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:27 - You will be convinced that I am in the midst of Israel. I am the LORD your God; there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

The Promise of the Spirit

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:28 - (3:1) After all of this I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your elderly will have revelatory dreams; your young men will see prophetic visions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:29 - Even on male and female servants I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

The Day of the LORD

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:30 - I will produce portents both in the sky and on the earth - blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:31 - The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the LORD comes - that great and terrible day!

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:32 - It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the LORD has promised; the remnant will be those whom the LORD will call.
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