Joel 2
2:1Trump with trumpet in Zion! Proclaim in my holy mountain! and confound all the ones dwelling in the land! for the day of the lord is at hand -- for it is near.
2:2A day of darkness and dimness, a day of cloud and fog, as the dawn, there shall be poured upon the mountains a vast and strong people, likened to it has not happened from the eon, and after it there shall not be added unto years, for generations of generations.
2:3The things before him a consuming fire; and behind him a flame being lighted. As a paradise of delicacy is the earth before his face, and the things behind him a plain of extinction; and ones escaping will not be to him.
2:4As a sight of horses so the appearance of them; and as horsemen so they shall pursue.
2:5As the sound of chariots upon the tops of the mountains they shall leap, even as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a vast and strong people being deployed for battle.
2:6From in front of him the people shall be destroyed; every face as a burnt earthen pot.
2:7As warriors, they shall run; and as men of war, they shall ascend upon the walls; and each in his way shall go, and no way shall they turn aside from their roads.
2:8And each shall not be at a distance from his brother; they shall go being burdened with their shields, and with arrows they shall fall, and no way shall they be ended.
2:9They shall take hold of the city, and upon the walls they shall run; unto the houses they shall ascend, and through the windows they shall enter as thieves.
2:10Before his face the earth shall be confounded, and the heaven shall be shaken; the sun and the moon shall darken, and the stars shall let down their brightness.
2:11And the lord shall give forth his voice from in front of his force; for his camp is exceedingly great; for his words are strong works; for great is the day of the lord, exceedingly apparent, and who will be fit for it?
2:12And now, says the lord, Return to me with your entire heart in fasting, and weeping, and beating of the breast!
2:13And tear your hearts and not your garments! And return to the lord your God! for he is merciful and pitying, lenient and full of mercy, and changing his mind concerning the evils.
2:14Who knows if he shall turn and change his mind, and leave behind him a blessing; even a sacrifice offering and a libation offering to the lord our God?
2:15Trump a trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast! Proclaim a sacred service!
2:16Gather together people! Sanctify an assembly! Choose elders! Gather together infants nursing breasts! Let the groom go forth from out of his bedroom, and the bride from out of her nuptial chamber!
2:17The priests ministering between the footing and the altar shall weep to the lord. And they shall say, Spare, O lord, your people! and, You should not give your inheritance unto scorn for the nations to rule them; so that among the nations they should not say, Where is their God?
2:18But the lord was jealous of his land, and spared his people.
2:19And the lord answered and said to his people, Behold, I shall send out to you the grain, and the wine, and the olive oil, and you shall be filled up of them. And I will not give you up any longer for scorning among the nations.
2:20And the one from the north I will drive out from you, and I will push him into a waterless land, and I will obliterate his face into the foremost sea, and the ones of his rear unto the latter sea. And his rottenness shall ascend, and his groaning shall ascend, for he magnified his works.
2:21Be of courage, O land! Rejoice and be glad! for the lord magnified to act.
2:22Be of courage, O cattle of the plain! for the plains of the wilderness have burst forth; for the tree bore its fruit; fig-tree and grapevine yielded their strength.
2:23And O children of Zion, rejoice and be glad in the lord your God! for he gave to you the foods for righteousness, and he shall rain to you early rain and late, as before.
2:24And the threshing-floors shall be filled of grain, and the vats shall be overflowing of wine and oil.
2:25And I will recompense to you for the years which the blight devoured, and the grasshopper and locust, and the caterpillar, by my great force which I sent out unto you.
2:26And you shall eat with solid food, and shall be filled up, and shall praise the name of the lord your God, who did wonders among you. And in no way shall my people be disgraced into the eon.
2:27And you shall realize that I am in the midst of Israel, even I the lord your God, and there is not any besides me. And in no way shall my people be disgraced any longer into the eon.
2:28And it will be after these things, I will pour out from my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your older men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
2:29And even upon the manservants, and upon the maidservants, in those days I will pour out from my spirit.
2:30And I shall execute miracles in the heaven, and upon the earth -- blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.
2:31The sun shall convert into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and apparent day of the lord.
2:32And it will be all who ever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be delivered. For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be one rescuing, as the lord said; and one announcing good news of which the lord was called upon.