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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Joel 2 King James 2000</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/joel/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/joel/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">King James 2000</a> > Joel 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joel/1.htm" title="Joel 1">◄</a> Joel 2 <a href="../joel/3.htm" title="Joel 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">King James 2000</div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Locust Army of the LORD</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="black">Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD comes, for it is near at hand;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="black">A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, through the years of many generations.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="black">A fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="black">The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="black">Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="black">Before their face the people shall be in great pain: all faces are drained of color.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="black">They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march each one on his way, and they shall not break their ranks:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="black">Neither shall one jostle another; they shall walk each one in his path: and when they lunge between the swords, they shall not be wounded.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="black">They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="black">The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="black">And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executes his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can endure it?</span></p> <p class="heading">Turn With All Your Heart</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">Therefore also now,</span> <span class="black">says the LORD,</span> <span class="red">turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="black">And tear your hearts, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relents from sending calamity.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="black">Who knows if he will return and have pity, and leave a blessing behind him; even a grain offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="black">Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="black">Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that nurse: let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her chamber.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="black">Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: why should they say among the people, Where is their God?</span></p> <p class="heading">The LORD Will Answer With Blessings</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="black">Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="black">Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people,</span> <span class="red">Behold, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with them: and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the eastern sea, and his back toward the western sea, and his stench shall come up, and his foul smell shall come up,</span> <span class="black">because he has done great things.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="black">Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="black">Be not afraid, you beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring up, for the tree bears her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="black">Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he has given you the former rain faithfully, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="black">And the threshing floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">And I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, and the consuming locust, and the cutting locust, my great army which I sent among you.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.</span></p> <p class="heading">I Will Pour Out My Spirit</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="red">And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="red">The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD comes.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/joel/2-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The King James 2000 Bible, copyright © Doctor of Theology Robert A. 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