The Old Testament Book of Joel
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your
heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your
heart, 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 repenteth
him of the evil. Who knoweth of he will return and repent , and leave a
blessing behind him; ...
Joel 2: 12-14
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* CHAP * COMMENTS
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
* 1 *Has this been in your days or the days of your fathers. Tell your
children of it and let them tell their children & grandchildren. What
the palmerworm has left the locust has eaten; what the locust left
the cankerworm has eaten and the caterpiller has eaten what was left.
A nation without number has come upon my land. The field is wasted.
The harvest of the field has perished. Gather all the inhabitants
into the house of the LORD. Alas - the day of the LORD is at hand.
The seed is rotten. The barns are broken. The beasts groan because
they've no pasture. To the LORD, I and the beasts also will cry.
* 2 *Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. The day of the LORD cometh. A
great and a strong people whose appearance is as horses & horsemen,
so shall they run. They shall not break their ranks. The earth will
quake before them. The day of the LORD is great & very terrible; who
can abide it? The LORD says turn to me with all your heart, and with
fasting, weeping, & mourning. Rend your heart - not your garments.
Turn to the LORD your God, He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger
& of great kindness, and repents of the evil. Who knows if he will
return & repent? Don't give your heritage to reproach for the heathen
to rule over. Why should they say Where is their God? Then the LORD
will pity his people. The LORD'll do great things. The floors will be
full of wheat. He'll restore the years that the locust, cankerworm,
caterpiller & the palmerworm has eaten. You'll know that I am in the
midst of Israel & that I am the LORD your God and none else: and my
people won't be ashamed. I'll pour my spirit out on all flesh; your
sons & daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams, young
men will see visions. I'll show wonders in the heavens and earth. The
sun will be turned into darkness, the moon into blood, before the
great & terrible day of the LORD come. It'll come to pass that
whosoever will call on the name of the LORD will be delivered:
* 3 *In those days & in that time I'll bring again the captivity of Judah &
Jerusalem. I'll gather all nations into the valley of Jehoshaphat. I
will plead with them for my people. What do you have to do with me,
Tyre & Zidon and all the costs of Palestine? You have taken my silver
and my gold. You have sold the children of Judah & Jerusalem unto the
Grecians to remove them far from their border. I'll raise them out of
the place where you have sold them. I'll sell your sons & daughters
to the children of Judah to sell to the Sabeans, to a people far off.
Tell the gentiles to prepare war. Beat plowshares into swords. Come
to the valley of Jehoshaphat: there will I sit to judge the heathen.
The press is full, the vats overflow; their wickedness is great. The
day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. The LORD will roar
out of Zion. The heathen & the earth wil shake: but the LORD will be
the hope of his people. So you will know that I am the LORD your God
dwelling in Zion. Then Jerusalem will be holy. In that day the mounts
will drop down new wine. Egypt will be a desolation. Edom will be a
wilderness. But Judah will dwell forever. For I will cleanse their
blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwells in Zion.
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