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\id JOL Unlocked Literal Bible
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\h Joel
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\toc1 The Book of Joel
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\toc2 Joel
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\toc3 Jol
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\mt Joel
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\s5
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\c 1
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\p
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\v 1 This is the word of Yahweh that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
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\q
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\v 2 Hear this, you elders,
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\q and listen, all you inhabitants of the land.
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\q Has anything like this happened in your days
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\q or in the days of your ancestors?
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\q
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\v 3 Tell your children about it,
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\q and let your children tell their children,
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\q and their children the next generation.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten;
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\q what the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten;
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\q and what the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
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\q Wail, all you drinkers of wine,
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\q because the sweet wine has been cut off from you.
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\q
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\v 6 For a nation has come up upon my land,
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\q mighty and without number.
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\q His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
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\q and he has the teeth of a lioness.
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\q
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\v 7 He has made my vineyard into a desolate place
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\q and has stripped my fig tree bare.
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\q He has stripped its bark and thrown it away;
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\q the branches are bare white.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 Mourn like a virgin girded in sackcloth for the death of her young bridegroom.
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\q
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\v 9 The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of Yahweh.
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\q The priests, Yahweh's servants, mourn.
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\q
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\v 10 The fields are ruined;
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\q the ground is mourning because the grain has been destroyed.
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\q The new wine has dried up;
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\q the oil fails.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 11 Be ashamed, you farmers,
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\q and wail, you vine growers,
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\q for the wheat and the barley.
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\q For the harvest of the fields has perished.
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\q
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\v 12 The vines have withered and the fig trees have dried up;
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\q the pomegranate trees, also the palm trees, and the apple trees—
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\q all the trees of the field have withered.
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\q For joy has withered away from the descendants of mankind.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth and mourn, you priests!
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\q Wail, you servants of the altar.
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\q Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you servants of my God.
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\q For the grain offering and the drink offering have been withheld from the house of your God.
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\q
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\v 14 Call for a holy fast,
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\q and call a holy assembly.
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\q Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land
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\q to the house of Yahweh your God,
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\q and cry to Yahweh.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 15 Alas for the day!
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\q For the day of Yahweh is almost here.
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\q With it will come destruction from the Almighty.
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\q
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\v 16 Has not food been cut off from before our eyes,
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\q and joy and gladness from the house of our God?
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\q
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\v 17 The seeds rot under their clods,
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\q the storehouses are desolate,
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\q and the barns have been torn down,
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\q for the grain has withered.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 18 How the cattle groan!
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\q Their herds are wandering in confusion because they have no pasture.
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\q Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
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\q
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\v 19 Yahweh, I cry to you.
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\q For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
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\q and flames have burned all the trees of the fields.
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\q
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\v 20 Even the animals of the fields pant for you,
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\q for the water brooks have dried up,
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\q and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
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\s5
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\c 2
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
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\q and sound an alarm on my holy mountain!
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\q Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble in fear,
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\q for the day of Yahweh is coming;
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\q indeed, it is near.
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\q
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\v 2 It is a day of darkness and gloom,
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\q a day of clouds and thick darkness.
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\q Like the dawn that spreads on the mountains,
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\q a large and mighty army is approaching.
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\q There has never been an army like it,
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\q and there never will be again,
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\q even after many generations.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 A fire is consuming everything in front of it,
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\q and behind it a flame is burning.
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\q The land is like the garden of Eden in front of it,
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\q but behind it there is a ruined wilderness.
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\q Indeed, nothing will escape from it.
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\q
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\v 4 The army's appearance is like horses,
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\q and they run like horsemen.
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\q
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\v 5 They jump with a noise like that of chariots on the tops of the mountains,
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\q like the sound of fiery flames that devour the stubble,
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\q like a mighty army ready for battle.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 At their presence people are in anguish
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\q and all their faces become pale.
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\q
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\v 7 They run like mighty warriors;
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\q they climb the walls like soldiers;
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\q they march, every one in step,
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\q and do not break their ranks.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 Neither does one thrust another aside;
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\q they march, each in his path;
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\q they break through the defenses
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\q and do not fall out of line.
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\q
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\v 9 They rush on the city,
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\q they run on the wall,
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\q they climb in the houses,
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\q and they go through the windows like thieves.
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\q
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\v 10 The earth shakes in front of them,
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\q the heavens tremble,
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\q the sun and the moon are darkened,
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\q and the stars stop shining.
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\q
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\v 11 Yahweh raises his voice in front of his army,
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\q for his warriors are very numerous;
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\q for they are strong, those who carry out his commands.
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\q For the day of Yahweh is great and very terrible.
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\q Who can endure it?
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\s5
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\q
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\v 12 "Yet even now"—this is Yahweh's declaration—
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\q "Return to me with all your heart.
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\q Fast, weep, and mourn."
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\q
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\v 13 Tear your heart and not only your garments,
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\q and return to Yahweh your God.
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\q For he is gracious and merciful,
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\q slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love
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\q and relenting from inflicting punishment.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 14 Who knows? Will he perhaps turn and relent,
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\q and leave a blessing behind him,
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\q a grain offering and a drink offering for Yahweh your God?
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\s5
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\q
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\v 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
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\q call for a holy fast,
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\q and call a holy assembly.
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\q
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\v 16 Gather the people;
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\q call for the holy assembly.
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\q Assemble the elders;
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\q gather the children
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\q and the nursing infants.
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\q Let the bridegrooms come out of their rooms,
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\q and the brides out of their bridal chambers.
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\q
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\v 17 Let the priests, the servants of Yahweh,
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\q weep between the porch and the altar.
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\q Let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh,
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\q and do not make your inheritance into an object of scorn,
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\q that the nations mock them.
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\q Why should they say among the nations,
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\q 'Where is their God?'"
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\s5
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\q
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\v 18 Then Yahweh was zealous for his land
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\q and had pity on his people.
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\q
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\v 19 Yahweh answered his people,
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\q "Look, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil.
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\q You will be satisfied with them,
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\q and I will no longer make you a disgrace among the nations.
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\q
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\v 20 I will remove the northern attackers far from you,
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\q and will drive them into a dry and desolate land.
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\q The front of their army will go into the eastern sea,
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\q and the rear into the western sea.
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\q Its stench will rise,
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\q and its bad smell will rise."
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\q2 Indeed, he has done great things.
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\q
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\v 21 Do not fear, land; be glad and rejoice,
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\q for Yahweh will do great things.
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\q
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\v 22 Do not fear, you wild animals!
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\q For the pastures of the wilderness will sprout,
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\q the trees will bear their fruit,
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\q and the fig trees and the vines will yield their full harvest.
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\v 23 Be glad, people of Zion,
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\q and rejoice in Yahweh your God.
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\q For he will give you the autumn rain as vindication
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\q and bring down showers for you,
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\q the autumn rain and the spring rain as before.
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\q
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\v 24 The threshing floors will be full of wheat,
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\q and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
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\v 25 "I will restore to you the years of crops that the swarming locust has eaten—
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\q the great locust, the devouring locust, and the destroying locust—
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\q my mighty army that I sent among you.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 26 You will eat plentifully and be satisfied,
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\q and praise the name of Yahweh your God,
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\q who has done wonders among you,
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\q and I will never again bring shame on my people.
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\q
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\v 27 You will know that I am among Israel,
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\q and that I am Yahweh your God,
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\q and there is none else,
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\q and I will never bring shame on my people.
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\q
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\v 28 It will come about afterward that
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\q I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,
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\q and your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
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\q Your old men will dream dreams;
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\q your young men will see visions.
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\q
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\v 29 Also on servants and female servants,
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\q in those days I will pour out my Spirit.
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\q
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\v 30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth,
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\q blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
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\q
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\v 31 The sun will turn into darkness
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\q and the moon into blood,
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\q before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
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\q
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\v 32 It will be that everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be saved.
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\q For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape,
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\q as Yahweh has said,
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\q and among the survivors,
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\q those whom Yahweh calls.
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\c 3
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 Behold, in those days and at that time,
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\q when I reverse the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
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\q
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\v 2 I will gather all the nations,
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\q and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
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\q I will judge them there,
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\q because of my people and my inheritance Israel,
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\q whom they scattered among the nations,
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\q and because they divided up my land.
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\q
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\v 3 They cast lots for my people,
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\q traded a boy for a prostitute,
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\q and sold a girl for wine
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\q so they could drink.
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\q
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\v 4 Now, why are you angry at me,
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\q Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of Philistia?
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\q Will you repay me?
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\q Even if you do repay me,
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\q I will immediately return your repayment on your own head.
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\v 5 For you took my silver and my gold,
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\q and you brought my precious treasures into your temples.
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\v 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,
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\q in order to send them far away from their territory.
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\q
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\v 7 Look, I am about to stir them up, out of the place where you sold them,
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\q and will return payment on your own head.
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\q
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\v 8 I will sell your sons and your daughters,
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\q by the hand of the people of Judah.
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\q They will sell them to the Sabeans,
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\q to a nation far off,
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\q for Yahweh has spoken."
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\q
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\v 9 Proclaim this among the nations:
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\q "Prepare yourselves for war;
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\q rouse the mighty men;
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\q let them come near;
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\q let all the men of battle come up.
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\v 10 Beat your plowshares into swords
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\q and your pruning knives into spears.
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\q Let the weak say,
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\q 'I am mighty.'
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\q
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\v 11 Hurry and come,
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\q all you nearby nations;
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\q gather yourselves together there.
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\q Yahweh, bring down your mighty warriors.
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\q
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\v 12 Let the nations wake themselves up
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\q and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
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\q For there will I sit to judge
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\q all the surrounding nations.
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\q
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\v 13 Put in the sickle,
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\q for the harvest is ripe.
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\q Come, crush the grapes,
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\q for the winepress is full.
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\q The vats overflow,
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\q for their wickedness is great."
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\v 14 There is a tumult, a tumult in the Valley of Judgment.
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\q For the day of Yahweh is near in the Valley of Judgment.
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\q
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\v 15 The sun and the moon become dark,
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\q the stars keep back their brightness.
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\v 16 Yahweh will roar from Zion,
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\q and raise his voice from Jerusalem.
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\q The heavens and earth will shake,
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\q but Yahweh will be a shelter for his people,
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\q and a fortress for the people of Israel.
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\q
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\v 17 "So you will know that I am Yahweh your God
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\q who lives in Zion, my holy mountain.
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\q Then Jerusalem will be holy,
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\q and foreigners will not pass through her again.
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\q
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\v 18 It will come about on that day
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\q that the mountains will drip with sweet wine,
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\q the hills will flow with milk,
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\q all the brooks of Judah will flow with water,
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\q and a fountain will come from the house of Yahweh
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\q and water the Valley of Shittim.
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\q
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\v 19 Egypt will become an abandoned devastation,
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\q and Edom will become an abandoned wilderness,
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\q because of the violence done to the people of Judah,
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\q because they shed innocent blood in their land.
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\q
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\v 20 But Judah will be inhabited forever,
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\q and Jerusalem will be inhabited from generation to generation.
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\q
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\v 21 I will avenge their blood that I have not yet avenged,
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\q for Yahweh lives in Zion."
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