13 “The days are coming,”(A) declares the Lord,

“when the reaper(B) will be overtaken by the plowman(C)
    and the planter by the one treading(D) grapes.
New wine(E) will drip from the mountains
    and flow from all the hills,(F)

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18 “In that day the mountains will drip new wine,(A)
    and the hills will flow with milk;(B)
    all the ravines of Judah will run with water.(C)
A fountain will flow out of the Lord’s house(D)
    and will water the valley of acacias.[a](E)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:18 Or Valley of Shittim

Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want(A) and live in safety in your land.(B)

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35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.(A)

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35 They will say, “This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden;(A) the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.(B)

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13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
    and instead of briers(A) the myrtle(B) will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,(C)
    for an everlasting sign,
    that will endure forever.”

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The Lord, the Lord Almighty—
he touches the earth and it melts,(A)
    and all who live in it mourn;
the whole land rises like the Nile,
    then sinks like the river of Egypt;(B)

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20 Judah will be inhabited forever(A)
    and Jerusalem through all generations.

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21 “In that day I will respond,”
    declares the Lord
“I will respond(A) to the skies,
    and they will respond to the earth;
22 and the earth will respond to the grain,
    the new wine and the olive oil,(B)
    and they will respond to Jezreel.[a](C)
23 I will plant(D) her for myself in the land;
    I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.[b](E)
I will say to those called ‘Not my people,[c]’ ‘You are my people’;(F)
    and they will say, ‘You are my God.(G)’”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:22 Jezreel means God plants.
  2. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-Ruhamah (see 1:6)
  3. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-Ammi (see 1:9)

Joy of the Redeemed

35 The desert(A) and the parched land will be glad;
    the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.(B)
Like the crocus,(C) it will burst into bloom;
    it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.(D)
The glory of Lebanon(E) will be given to it,
    the splendor of Carmel(F) and Sharon;(G)
they will see the glory(H) of the Lord,
    the splendor of our God.(I)

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The mountains melt(A) like wax(B) before the Lord,
    before the Lord of all the earth.(C)

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The mountains quaked(A) before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
    before the Lord, the God of Israel.

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