God in Joel

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1. 1:1

   This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:

2. 1:9

   Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

3. 1:13

   Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

4. 1:14

   Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

5. 1:15

   Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

6. 1:16

   Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?

7. 1:19

   To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

8. 2:1

   Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—

9. 2:11

   The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?

10. 2:12

    “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

11. 2:13

    So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

12. 2:14

    Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

13. 2:17

    Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

14. 2:18

    Then the LORD became jealous for His land, and He spared His people.

15. 2:19

    And the LORD answered His people: “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and by them you will be satisfied. I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.

16. 2:21

    Do not be afraid, O land; rejoice and be glad, for the LORD has done great things.

17. 2:23

    Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

18. 2:26

    You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.

19. 2:27

    Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

20. 2:31

    The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

21. 2:32

    And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.

22. 3:8

    I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

23. 3:11

    Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves. Bring down Your mighty ones, O LORD.

24. 3:14

    Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

25. 3:16

    The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.

26. 3:17

    Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.

27. 3:18

    And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

28. 3:21

    For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.