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class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NASB 1995</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/joel/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Terrible Visitation</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>Blow a trumpet in Zion,<br> And sound an alarm on My holy mountain!<br> Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,<br> For the day of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is coming;<br> Surely it is near,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>A day of darkness and gloom,<br> A day of clouds and thick darkness.<br> As the dawn is spread over the mountains,<br> <i>So</i> there is a great and mighty people;<br> There has never been <i>anything</i> like it,<br> Nor will there be again after it<br> To the years of many generations.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>A fire consumes before them<br> And behind them a flame burns.<br> The land is like the garden of Eden before them<br> But a desolate wilderness behind them,<br> And nothing at all escapes them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>Their appearance is like the appearance of horses;<br> And like war horses, so they run.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>With a noise as of chariots<br> They leap on the tops of the mountains,<br> Like the crackling of a flame of fire consuming the stubble,<br> Like a mighty people arranged for battle.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Before them the people are in anguish;<br> All faces turn pale.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>They run like mighty men,<br> They climb the wall like soldiers;<br> And they each march in line,<br> Nor do they deviate from their paths.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>They do not crowd each other,<br> They march everyone in his path;<br> When they burst through the defenses,<br> They do not break ranks.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>They rush on the city,<br> They run on the wall;<br> They climb into the houses,<br> They enter through the windows like a thief.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Before them the earth quakes,<br> The heavens tremble,<br> The sun and the moon grow dark<br> And the stars lose their brightness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> utters His voice before His army;<br> Surely His camp is very great,<br> For strong is he who carries out His word.<br> The day of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is indeed great and very awesome,<br> And who can endure it?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>“Yet even now,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br> “Return to Me with all your heart,<br> And with fasting, weeping and mourning;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>And rend your heart and not your garments.”<br> Now return to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God,<br> For He is gracious and compassionate,<br> Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness<br> And relenting of evil.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Who knows whether He will <i>not</i> turn and relent<br> And leave a blessing behind Him,<br> <i>Even</i> a grain offering and a drink offering<br> For the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Blow a trumpet in Zion,<br> Consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Gather the people, sanctify the congregation,<br> Assemble the elders,<br> Gather the children and the nursing infants.<br> Let the bridegroom come out of his room<br> And the bride out of her <i>bridal</i> chamber.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Let the priests, the L<font size="1">ORD’S</font> ministers,<br> Weep between the porch and the altar,<br> And let them say, “Spare Your people, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br> And do not make Your inheritance a reproach,<br> A byword among the nations.<br> Why should they among the peoples say,<br> ‘Where is their God?’”<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Deliverance Promised</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Then the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will be zealous for His land<br> And will have pity on His people.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> will answer and say to His people,<br> “Behold, I am going to send you grain, new wine and oil,<br> And you will be satisfied <i>in full</i> with them;<br> And I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>“But I will remove the northern <i>army</i> far from you,<br> And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,<br> And its vanguard into the eastern sea,<br> And its rear guard into the western sea.<br> And its stench will arise and its foul smell will come up,<br> For it has done great things.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Do not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad,<br> For the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has done great things.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Do not fear, beasts of the field,<br> For the pastures of the wilderness have turned green,<br> For the tree has borne its fruit,<br> The fig tree and the vine have yielded in full.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>So rejoice, O sons of Zion,<br> And be glad in the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God;<br> For He has given you the early rain for <i>your</i> vindication.<br> And He has poured down for you the rain,<br> The early and latter rain as before.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>The threshing floors will be full of grain,<br> And the vats will overflow with the new wine and oil.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>“Then I will make up to you for the years<br> That the swarming locust has eaten,<br> The creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust,<br> My great army which I sent among you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>“You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied<br> And praise the name of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God,<br> Who has dealt wondrously with you;<br> Then My people will never be put to shame.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>“Thus you will know that I am in the midst of Israel,<br> And that I am the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God,<br> And there is no other;<br> And My people will never be put to shame.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Promise of the Spirit</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>“It will come about after this<br> That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind;<br> And your sons and daughters will prophesy,<br> Your old men will dream dreams,<br> Your young men will see visions.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>“Even on the male and female servants<br> I will pour out My Spirit in those days.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Day of the L<font size="1">ORD</font></i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>“I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth,<br> Blood, fire and columns of smoke.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>“The sun will be turned into darkness<br> And the moon into blood<br> Before the great and awesome day of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> comes.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>“And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the L<font size="1">ORD</font><br> Will be delivered;<br> For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem<br> There will be those who escape,<br> As the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has said,<br> Even among the survivors whom the L<font size="1">ORD</font> calls.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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