11 (A)The Lord utters his voice
    before (B)his army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
    (C)he who executes his word is powerful.
(D)For the day of the Lord is (E)great and very awesome;
    (F)who can endure it?

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But (A)who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For (B)he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.

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(A)Who can stand before his indignation?
    Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath (B)is poured out like fire,
    and (C)the rocks are broken into pieces by him.

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For this reason her plagues will come (A)in a single day,
    death and mourning and famine,
and (B)she will be burned up with fire;
    for (C)mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”

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16 (A)The Lord roars from Zion,
    and (B)utters his voice from Jerusalem,
    (C)and the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is (D)a refuge to his people,
    a stronghold to the people of Israel.

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Alas! (A)That day is so great
    (B)there is none like it;
it is a time of distress for Jacob;
    yet he shall be saved out of it.

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20 (A)Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light,
    and gloom with no brightness in it?

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15 Alas for the day!
(A)For the day of the Lord is near,
    and as destruction from the Almighty[a] it comes.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:15 Destruction sounds like the Hebrew for Almighty

34 (A)Their Redeemer is strong; (B)the Lord of hosts is his name. (C)He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

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13 (A)The Lord goes out like a mighty man,
    like a man of war (B)he stirs up his zeal;
he cries out, (C)he shouts aloud,
    he shows himself mighty against his foes.

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The sound (A)of a tumult is on the mountains
    as of a great multitude!
The sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
    of nations gathering together!
(B)The Lord of hosts is mustering
    a host for battle.

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23 And he took up his discourse and said,

“Alas, who shall live when God does this?

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14 (A)The great day of the Lord is near,
    near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
    (B)the mighty man cries aloud there.
15 (C)A day of wrath is that day,
    a day of distress and anguish,
a day of (D)ruin and devastation,
    (E)a day of darkness and gloom,
(F)a day of clouds and thick darkness,

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31 (A)The sun shall be turned to darkness, (B)and the moon to blood, (C)before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

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30 “You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:

(A)“‘The Lord will roar from on high,
    and from his holy habitation utter his voice;
he will roar mightily against his fold,
    (B)and shout, like those who tread grapes,
    against all the inhabitants of the earth.

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Let Justice Roll Down

18 Woe to you who desire (A)the day of the Lord!
    Why would you have the day of the Lord?
(B)It is darkness, and not light,

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Judgment on Israel's Neighbors

And he said:

(A)“The Lord roars from Zion
    and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
(B)the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
    and the (C)top of (D)Carmel withers.”

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25 I will restore[a] to you the years
    that (A)the swarming locust has eaten,
(B)the hopper, (C)the destroyer, and (D)the cutter,
    (E)my great army, which I sent among you.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:25 Or pay back

14 (A)Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? (B)I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.

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18 In that day the Lord will (A)whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

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14 (A)The Lord thundered from heaven,
    and the Most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out (B)arrows and scattered them;
    lightning, and routed them.

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