Joel 2:28-3:8

English Standard Version

The Lord Will Pour Out His Spirit

²⁸^[a] ^(A)“And it shall come to pass afterward,
    that ^(B)I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
^(C)your sons and ^(D)your daughters shall prophesy,
    your old men shall dream dreams,
    and your young men shall see visions.
²⁹^(E)Even on the male and female servants
    in those days I will pour out my Spirit.

³⁰“And I will show ^(F)wonders in the heavens and ^(G)on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. ³¹^(H)The sun shall be turned to darkness, ^(I)and the moon to blood, ^(J)before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. ³²And it shall come to pass that ^(K)everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. ^(L)For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among ^(M)the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

The Lord Judges the Nations

3 ^[b] “For behold, ^(N)in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, ²^(O)I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And ^(P)I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, ³and ^(Q)have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

⁴“What are you to me, ^(R)O Tyre and Sidon, and all ^(S)the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, ^(T)I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. ⁵For ^(U)you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.^[c] ⁶You have sold ^(V)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. ⁷Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and ^(W)I will return your payment on your own head. ⁸I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the ^(X)Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.”