| 1:2 |
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? |
| 1:5 |
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the newsweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. |
| 1:6 |
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number,; whosehis teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheekjaw teeth of a great lion. |
| 1:9 |
The meatmeal offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the LordsLordS ministers, mourn. |
| 1:10 |
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted:, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. |
| 1:11 |
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen;, howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; becausefor the harvest of the field is perished. |
| 1:12 |
The vine is dried upwithered, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: becausefor joy is withered away from the sons of men. |
| 1:13 |
Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests:; howl, ye ministers of the altar:; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meatmeal offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. |
| 1:14 |
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the eldersold men and all the inhabitants of the land intounto the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,. |
| 1:15 |
Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come., |
| 1:17 |
The seedseeds isrot rotten under their clods,; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. |
| 1:19 |
O Lord, to thee willdo I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. |
| 1:20 |
TheYea, the beasts of the field crypant also unto thee: for the riverswater ofbrooks waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. |
| 2:1 |
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain:; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; |
| 2:2 |
Aa day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morningdawn spread upon the mountains:; a great people and a strong;, there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after itthem, even to the years of many generations. |
| 2:3 |
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothingnone shallhath escapeescaped them. |
| 2:4 |
The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shalldo they run. |
| 2:5 |
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains shalldo they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. |
| 2:6 |
BeforeAt their facepresence the peoplepeoples shallare bein much painedanguish: all faces shallare gatherwaxed blacknesspale. |
| 2:7 |
They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shallbreak not break their ranks:. |
| 2:8 |
Neither shalldoth one thrust another; they shallmarch walk every one in his path: and when they fallburst uponthrough the swordweapons, theyand shallbreak not beoff woundedtheir course. |
| 2:9 |
They shallleap runupon to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall,; they shall climb up uponinto the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. |
| 2:10 |
The earth shallquaketh quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shallare be darkdarkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: |
| 2:11 |
And the Lord shalluttereth utter his voice before his army:; for his camp is very great:; for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? |
| 2:12 |
ThereforeYet alsoeven now, saith the Lord, turn ye evenunto to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: |
| 2:13 |
Andand rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God:, for he is gracious and mercifulfull of compassion, slow to anger, and ofplenteous greatin kindnessmercy, and repenteth him of the evil. |
| 2:14 |
Who knoweth ifwhether he will returnnot turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him;, even a meatmeal offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God? |
| 2:16 |
Gathergather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the eldersold men, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. |
| 2:17 |
Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathennations should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the peoplepeoples, Where is their God? |
| 2:18 |
Then willwas the Lord be jealous for his land, and had pity on his people. |
| 2:19 |
Yea,And the Lord willanswered answer and saysaid unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathennations: |
| 2:20 |
Butbut I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his faceforepart towardinto the easteastern sea, and his hinder part towardinto the utmostwestern sea,; and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things. |
| 2:21 |
Fear not, O land;, be glad and rejoice:; for the Lord willhath dodone great things. |
| 2:22 |
Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field:; for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. |
| 2:23 |
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hathgiveth given you the former rain moderatelyin just measure, and he willcauseth cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain, in the first month. |
| 2:26 |
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. |
| 2:27 |
And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and there is none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. |
| 2:29 |
Andand also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. |
| 2:32 |
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverancethose that escape, as the Lord hath said, and inamong the remnant those whom the Lord shalldoth call. |
| 3:2 |
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat,; and I will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land., |
| 3:3 |
Andand they have cast lots for my people;: and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. |
| 3:4 |
Yea, and what haveare ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coastsregions of PalestinePhilistia? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;. |
| 3:5 |
BecauseForasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:; |
| 3:6 |
Thethe children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.: |
| 3:7 |
Beholdbehold, I will raisestir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:; |
| 3:8 |
Andand I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeansmen of Sheba, to a peoplenation far off: for the Lord hath spoken it. |
| 3:9 |
Proclaim ye this among the Gentilesnations; Prepareprepare war,: wakestir up the mighty men,; let all the men of war draw near;, let them come up:. |
| 3:10 |
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. |
| 3:11 |
AssembleHaste yourselvesye, and come, all ye heathennations round about, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. |
| 3:12 |
Let the heathennations bebestir wakenedthemselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathennations round about. |
| 3:13 |
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, gettread you downye; for the presswinepress is full, the fatsvats overflow; for their wickedness is great. |
| 3:14 |
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision:! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. |
| 3:15 |
The sun and the moon shallare be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. |
| 3:16 |
TheAnd the Lord also shall roar outfrom of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake:, but the Lord will be thea hoperefuge ofunto his people, and thea strengthstrong ofhold to the children of Israel. |
| 3:17 |
So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. |
| 3:18 |
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down newsweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the riversbrooks of Judah shall flow with waters,; and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. |
| 3:19 |
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence againstdone to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. |
| 3:20 |
But Judah shall dwellabide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. |
| 3:21 |
ForAnd I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion. |