Joel 2 — WBMS
2Verse 1Sing ye with a trump in Zion, yell ye in mine holy hill [or mountain]. All the dwellers of earth be disturbed [or troubled]; for the day of the Lord cometh,Verse 2for the day of darknesses and of mist is nigh, the day of cloud and of whirlwind. These locusts be as the morrowtide spread abroad on hills, a much people and strong. None was like it from the beginning, and after it shall not be, till into years of generation and of generation.Verse 3Before the face thereof shall be fire devouring, and after it shall be burning flame; as a garden of liking or Eden the land shall be before them, and wilderness of desert shall be after them, and none is that shall escape them.Verse 4The looking of them shall be as the looking of horses; and as horsemen, so they shall run.Verse 5As the sound of carts on the heads [or tops] of hills they shall skip; as the sound of the flame of fire devouring stubble, as a strong people made ready to battle.Verse 6Peoples shall be tormented of the face thereof, all faces shall be as driven into a pot.Verse 7As strong men they shall run, as men warriors they shall ascend on the wall. These men shall go in their ways, and they shall not bow away from their paths.Verse 8Each man shall not make strait his brother, each man shall go in his own path; but also they shall fall down by windows, and shall not be hurt.Verse 9They shall enter into the city, they shall run on the wall; they shall ascend on houses, they shall enter as a night thief by windows.Verse 10The earth trembled of his face, heavens were moved, the sun and the moon were made dark, and stars withdrew their shining.Verse 11And the Lord gave his voice before the face of his host, for his hosts be full many; for those be strong, and do the word of him. For the day of the Lord is great, and full fearedful, and who shall suffer it?Verse 12Now therefore saith the Lord, Be ye turned again to me in all your heart, in fasting, and weeping, and wailing;Verse 13and carve ye your hearts, and not your clothes, and be ye turned again to your Lord God, for he is benign, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and abiding, either forgiving, on malice.Verse 14Who knoweth, if God be turned again, and forgive, and leave blessing after him? sacrifice and moist sacrifice to our Lord God.Verse 15Sing ye with a trump in Zion, hallow ye fasting, call ye a company;Verse 16gather together the people, hallow ye the church, gather ye together eld [or old] men, gather ye together little children, and those sucking the breasts; a spouse go out of his bed, and a spousess out of her chamber.Verse 17Priests, the ministers of the Lord, shall weep betwixt the porch and the altar, and shall say, Lord! spare thou, spare thy people, and give thou not thine heritage into shame, that nations be lords of them. Why say they among peoples, Where is the God of them?Verse 18The Lord loved jealously his land, and spared his people.Verse 19And the Lord answered, and said to his people, Lo! I shall send to you wheat, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be [ful] filled with those; and I shall no more give you to be a shame among heathen men.Verse 20And I shall make him that is at the north far from you; and I shall cast him out into a land without way, and desert; his face against the east sea, and the last part thereof at the last sea; and the stink thereof shall ascend or go up, and the root thereof shall ascend [or go up], for he did proudly.Verse 21Earth, do not thou dread, make thou full out joy, and be glad; for the Lord magnified that he should do.Verse 22Beasts of the country, do not ye dread, for the fair things of desert burgeoned; for the tree brought his fruit, the fig tree and vinery [or the vineyard] gave their strength.Verse 23And the sons of Zion, make ye full out joy, and be ye glad in your Lord God, for he gave to you a teacher of rightfulness [or rightwiseness], and he shall make morrowtide rain and eventide rain to come down to you, as in the beginning.Verse 24And cornfloors shall be [full-]filled of wheat, and pressers shall flow with wine and oil.Verse 25And I shall yield to you the years which the locust, bruchus, and rust, and wortworm, my great strength, ate, which I sent into you.Verse 26And ye shall eat eating, and ye shall be [ful] filled; and ye shall praise the name of your Lord God, that made marvels with you; and my people shall not be shamed without end.Verse 27And ye shall know, that I am in the midst of Israel; and I am your Lord God, and none is more; and my people shall not be shamed without end.Verse 28And it shall be, after these things I shall shed [or pour] out my spirit on each man; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your eld [or old] men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.Verse 29But also I shall shed [or pour] out my spirit on my servants, and hand-maids, in those days;Verse 30and I shall give great wonders in heaven, and in earth, blood, and fire, and the heat of smoke.Verse 31The sun shall be turned into darknesses, and the moon into blood, before that the great day and horrible of the Lord come.Verse 32And it shall be, each that calleth to help the name of the Lord shall be safe; for why salvation, either saving, shall be in the hill of Zion and in Jerusalem, as the Lord said, and in the residue men, which the Lord calleth.