Berean Standard Bible

Joel 2:23-32

23Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.24The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust,the destroying locust, and the devouring locust1—My great army that I sent against you.26You will have plenty to eat,until you are satisfied.You will praise the name of the LORD your God,who has worked wonders for you.My people will never againbe put to shame.27Then you will know that I am present in Israeland that I am the LORD your God,and there is no other.My people will never againbe put to shame.

28And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people.Your sons and daughters will prophesy,your old men will dream dreams,your young men will see visions.29Even on My menservants and maidservants,I will pour out My Spirit in those days.30I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth,blood and fire and columns2 of smoke.31The sun will be turned to darknessand the moon to bloodbefore the coming of the great and awesome3 Day of the LORD.32And everyone who calls on the name of the LORDwill be saved;4for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalemthere will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised,among the remnant called by the LORD.

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Notes

1. Joel 2:25 The precise identification of the four kinds of insects mentioned here is uncertain. ↩
2. Joel 2:30 LXX clouds or billows ↩
3. Joel 2:31 Or dreadful; LXX glorious ↩
4. Joel 2:32 Cited in Acts 2:17–21 and Romans 10:13 ↩

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