Joel 2

1Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:Cross-references: Num 10:3 · Num 10:5 · 1Chr 15:28 · Ezra 9:3 · Ps 87:1 · Ps 119:120 · +33 more

2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.Cross-references: Ex 10:6 · Ex 10:14 · Ex 20:21 · Deut 32:7 · Ps 10:6 · Ps 97:2 · +18 more

3A 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. Yes, and no one has escaped them.Cross-references: Gen 2:8 · Gen 13:10 · Ex 10:5 · Ex 10:15 · Ps 50:3 · Ps 105:34 · +7 more

4Their appearance is as the appearance of horses, and they run as horsemen.Cross-references: Rev 9:7

5Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.Cross-references: Isa 5:24 · Isa 30:30 · Nah 2:3 · Nah 3:2 · Matt 3:12 · Rev 9:9

6At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.Cross-references: Ps 119:83 · Isa 13:8 · Jer 8:21 · Jer 30:6 · Lam 4:8 · Nah 2:10

7They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.Cross-references: 2Sam 1:23 · 2Sam 2:18 · 2Sam 5:8 · Ps 19:5 · Prov 30:27 · Isa 5:26 · +2 more

8One doesn’t jostle another. They each march in their own path. They burst through the defenses and don’t break ranks.Cross-references: 2Chr 23:10 · 2Chr 32:5 · Neh 4:17 · Neh 4:23 · Job 33:18 · Job 36:12 · +1 more

9They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.Cross-references: Ex 10:6 · Jer 9:21 · John 10:1

10The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.Cross-references: Ps 18:7 · Ps 114:7 · Isa 13:10 · Isa 34:4 · Jer 4:23 · Ezek 32:7 · +13 more

11Yahweh thunders his voice before his army, for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?Cross-references: Num 24:23 · 2Sam 22:14 · Ps 46:6 · Isa 7:18 · Isa 13:4 · Isa 42:13 · +16 more

12“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”Cross-references: Deut 4:29 · Judg 20:26 · 1Sam 7:3 · 1Sam 7:6 · 1Ki 8:47 · 2Chr 6:38 · +18 more

13Tear your heart and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.Cross-references: Gen 37:29 · Gen 37:34 · Ex 34:6 · Num 14:18 · 2Sam 1:11 · 1Ki 21:27 · +29 more

14Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.Cross-references: Ex 32:30 · Josh 14:12 · 1Sam 6:5 · 2Sam 12:22 · 2Ki 19:4 · Isa 65:8 · +11 more

15Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.Cross-references: Num 10:3 · 1Ki 21:9 · 1Ki 21:12 · 2Ki 10:20 · Jer 36:9 · Joel 1:14 · +1 more

16Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her chamber.Cross-references: Ex 19:10 · Ex 19:15 · Ex 19:22 · Deut 29:10 · Josh 7:13 · 1Sam 16:5 · +13 more

17Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”Cross-references: Ex 32:11 · Ex 34:9 · Num 14:14 · Deut 9:16 · Deut 28:37 · Deut 32:27 · +31 more

18Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.Cross-references: Deut 32:16 · Deut 32:36 · Deut 32:43 · Judg 10:16 · Ps 103:13 · Ps 103:17 · +11 more

19Yahweh answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.Cross-references: Isa 62:8 · Isa 65:21 · Jer 31:12 · Ezek 34:29 · Ezek 36:15 · Ezek 39:29 · +7 more

20But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things.Cross-references: Ex 10:19 · Deut 11:24 · 2Ki 8:13 · Isa 34:3 · Jer 1:14 · Ezek 39:12 · +6 more

21Land, don’t be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Deut 4:32 · 1Sam 12:16 · 1Sam 12:24 · Ps 65:12 · Ps 71:19 · +14 more

22Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.Cross-references: Gen 4:12 · Lev 26:4 · Ps 36:6 · Ps 65:12 · Ps 67:6 · Ps 104:11 · +18 more

23“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.Cross-references: Lev 26:4 · Deut 11:14 · Deut 28:12 · Deut 32:2 · Job 33:23 · Ps 28:7 · +30 more

24The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.Cross-references: Lev 26:10 · Prov 3:9 · Joel 3:13 · Joel 3:18 · Amos 9:13 · Mal 3:10

25I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.Cross-references: Joel 1:4 · Joel 2:2 · Zech 10:6

26You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied, and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed.Cross-references: Gen 33:11 · Lev 26:5 · Lev 26:26 · Deut 6:11 · Deut 8:10 · Deut 12:7 · +32 more

27You will know that I am among Israel, and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else; and my people will never again be disappointed.Cross-references: Lev 26:11 · Deut 23:14 · Ps 46:5 · Ps 68:18 · Isa 12:6 · Isa 45:5 · +12 more

28“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.Cross-references: Gen 37:5 · Num 12:6 · Prov 1:23 · Isa 32:15 · Isa 40:5 · Isa 44:3 · +16 more

29And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.Cross-references: 1Cor 12:13 · Gal 3:28 · Col 3:11

30I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.Cross-references: Gen 19:28 · Josh 8:20 · Judg 20:38 · Judg 20:40 · Song 3:6 · Matt 24:29 · +7 more

31The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.Cross-references: Isa 13:9 · Isa 34:4 · Joel 2:10 · Joel 3:1 · Joel 3:15 · Zeph 1:14 · +7 more

32It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.Cross-references: Ps 50:15 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 10:22 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 11:16 · Isa 46:13 · +24 more