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<title>Joel — World English Bible Updated</title>
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<article class="book" data-template="book" id="JOL" data-book="JOL" data-name="Joel" data-section="ot">
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<header class="book-header">
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<h1><span class="mt2">The Book of</span> <span class="mt">Joel</span></h1>
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<nav class="chapter-nav" aria-label="Chapters" hx-boost="false">
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<li><a href="#ch1">1</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ch2">2</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ch3">3</a></li>
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</ul>
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<div class="chapters">
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<section class="chapter" id="ch1" data-chapter="1">
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<h2 class="chapter-number">1</h2>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v1_1">1</span> The LORD’s<a class="noteref" id="fnref1_1" href="#fn1_1"><sup>*</sup></a> word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_2">2</span> Hear this, you elders,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and listen, all you inhabitants of the land!</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Has this ever happened in your days,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">or in the days of your fathers?</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_3">3</span> Tell your children about it,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have your children tell their children,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their children, another generation.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_4">4</span> What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_5">5</span> Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for it is cut off from your mouth.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_6">6</span> For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His teeth are the teeth of a lion,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and he has the fangs of a lioness.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_7">7</span> He has laid my vine waste,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and stripped my fig tree.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Its branches are made white.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_8">8</span> Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the husband of her youth!</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_9">9</span> The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the LORD’s house.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_10">10</span> The field is laid waste.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The new wine has dried up,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the oil languishes.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_11">11</span> Be confounded, you farmers!</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Wail, you vineyard keepers,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the wheat and for the barley;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the harvest of the field has perished.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_12">12</span> The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered—</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even all of the trees of the field are withered;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for joy has withered away from the sons of men.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_13">13</span> Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests!</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Wail, you ministers of the altar.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God,<a class="noteref" id="fnref1_2" href="#fn1_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_14">14</span> Sanctify a fast.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Call a solemn assembly.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD, your God,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and cry to the LORD.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_15">15</span> Alas for the day!</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">For the day of the LORD is at hand,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_16">16</span> Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">joy and gladness from the house of our God?</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_17">17</span> The seeds rot under their clods.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The granaries are laid desolate.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_18">18</span> How the animals groan!</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_19">19</span> LORD, I cry to you,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_20">20</span> Yes, the animals of the field pant to you,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the water brooks have dried up,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.</p>
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</div>
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<section class="footnotes">
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<h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
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<ol>
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<li class="note" id="fn1_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref1_1">1:1</a> <span class="ft">When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).</span></li>
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<li class="note" id="fn1_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref1_2">1:13</a> <span class="ft">The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</span></li>
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</ol>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section class="chapter" id="ch2" data-chapter="2">
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<h2 class="chapter-number">2</h2>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_1">1</span> Blow the trumpet in Zion,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and sound an alarm in my holy mountain!</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the day of the LORD comes,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for it is close at hand:</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_2">2</span> A day of darkness and gloominess,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a day of clouds and thick darkness.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">As the dawn spreading on the mountains,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a great and strong people;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">there has never been the like,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither will there be any more after them,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even to the years of many generations.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_3">3</span> A fire devours before them,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and behind them, a flame burns.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">The land is as the garden of Eden before them,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and behind them, a desolate wilderness.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Yes, and no one has escaped them.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_4">4</span> Their appearance is as the appearance of horses,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and they run as horsemen.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_5">5</span> Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like a strong people set in battle array.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_6">6</span> At their presence the peoples are in anguish.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All faces have grown pale.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_7">7</span> They run like mighty men.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They climb the wall like warriors.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_8">8</span> One doesn’t jostle another.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They each march in their own path.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They burst through the defenses</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and don’t break ranks.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_9">9</span> They rush on the city.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They run on the wall.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They climb up into the houses.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They enter in at the windows like thieves.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_10">10</span> The earth quakes before them.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The heavens tremble.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The sun and the moon are darkened,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the stars withdraw their shining.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_11">11</span> The LORD thunders his voice before his army,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his forces are very great;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he is strong who obeys his command;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the day of the LORD is great and very awesome,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and who can endure it?</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_12">12</span> “Yet even now,” says the LORD, “turn to me with all your heart,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_13">13</span> Tear your heart and not your garments,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and turn to the LORD, your God;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he is gracious and merciful,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and relents from sending calamity.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_14">14</span> Who knows? He may turn and relent,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and leave a blessing behind him,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even a meal offering and a drink offering to the LORD, your God.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_15">15</span> Blow the trumpet in Zion!</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Sanctify a fast.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Call a solemn assembly.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_16">16</span> Gather the people.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Sanctify the assembly.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Assemble the elders.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Let the bridegroom go out of his room,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the bride out of her chamber.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_17">17</span> Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and let them say, “Spare your people, LORD,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and don’t give your heritage to reproach,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that the nations should rule over them.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Why should they say among the peoples,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">‘Where is their God?’ ”</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_18">18</span> Then the LORD was jealous for his land,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and had pity on his people.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_19">19</span> The LORD answered his people,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Behold,<a class="noteref" id="fnref2_1" href="#fn2_1"><sup>*</sup></a> I will send you grain, new wine, and oil,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and you will be satisfied with them;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_20">20</span> But I will remove the northern army far away from you,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will drive it into a barren and desolate land,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">its front into the eastern sea,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and its back into the western sea;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and its stench will come up,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and its bad smell will rise.”</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Surely he has done great things.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_21">21</span> Land, don’t be afraid.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_22">22</span> Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the pastures of the wilderness spring up,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the tree bears its fruit.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_23">23</span> “Be glad then, you children of Zion,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and rejoice in the LORD, your God;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he gives you the early rain in just measure,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and he causes the rain to come down for you,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the early rain and the latter rain, as before.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_24">24</span> The threshing floors will be full of wheat,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_25">25</span> I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my great army, which I sent among you.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_26">26</span> You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will praise the name of the LORD, your God,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who has dealt wondrously with you;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and my people will never again be disappointed.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_27">27</span> You will know that I am among Israel,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and that I am the LORD, your God, and there is no one else;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and my people will never again be disappointed.</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_28">28</span> “It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and your sons and your daughters will prophesy.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your old men will dream dreams.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your young men will see visions.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_29">29</span> And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will pour out my Spirit.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_30">30</span> I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth:</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_31">31</span> The sun will be turned into darkness,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the moon into blood,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_32">32</span> It will happen that whoever will call on the LORD’s name shall be saved;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as the LORD has said,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and among the remnant, those whom the LORD calls.</p>
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<section class="footnotes">
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<h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
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<ol>
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<li class="note" id="fn2_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref2_1">2:19</a> <span class="ft">“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</span></li>
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</ol>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section class="chapter" id="ch3" data-chapter="3">
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<h2 class="chapter-number">3</h2>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_1">1</span> “For, behold, in those days,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and in that time,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_2">2</span> I will gather all nations,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and I will execute judgment on them there for my people,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have divided my land,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v3_3">3</span> and have cast lots for my people,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have given a boy for a prostitute,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_4">4</span> “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and all the regions of Philistia?</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Will you repay me?</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">And if you repay me,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_5">5</span> Because you have taken my silver and my gold,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v3_6">6</span> and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that you may remove them far from their border.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_7">7</span> Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will return your repayment on your own head;</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_8">8</span> and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to a faraway nation,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the LORD has spoken it.”</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_9">9</span> Proclaim this among the nations:</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Prepare for war!</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Stir up the mighty men.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Let all the warriors draw near.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them come up. <span class="v" id="v3_10">10</span> Beat your plowshares into swords,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and your pruning hooks into spears.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_11">11</span> Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and gather yourselves together.”</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Cause your mighty ones to come down there, LORD.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_12">12</span> “Let the nations arouse themselves,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_13">13</span> Put in the sickle;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the harvest is ripe.</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Come, tread, for the wine press is full,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_14">14</span> Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_15">15</span> The sun and the moon are darkened,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the stars withdraw their shining.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_16">16</span> The LORD will roar from Zion,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and thunder from Jerusalem;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the heavens and the earth will shake;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the LORD will be a refuge to his people,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and a stronghold to the children of Israel.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_17">17</span> “So you will know that I am the LORD, your God,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Then Jerusalem will be holy,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and no strangers will pass through her any more.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_18">18</span> It will happen in that day,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that the mountains will drop down sweet wine,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the hills will flow with milk,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and a fountain will flow out from the LORD’s house,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will water the valley of Shittim.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_19">19</span> Egypt will be a desolation</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the violence done to the children of Judah,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because they have shed innocent blood in their land.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_20">20</span> But Judah will be inhabited forever,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and Jerusalem from generation to generation.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_21">21</span> I will cleanse their blood</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I have not cleansed,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the LORD dwells in Zion.”</p>
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