20 “But (A)I will remove far from you (B)the northern army,
And will drive him away into a barren and desolate land,
With his face toward the eastern sea
And his back (C)toward the western sea;
His stench will come up,
And his foul odor will rise,
Because he has done [a]monstrous things.”

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  1. Joel 2:20 Lit. great

And in that day it shall be
That living (A)waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward [a]the eastern sea
And half of them toward [b]the western sea;
In both summer and winter it shall occur.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 14:8 The Dead Sea
  2. Zechariah 14:8 The Mediterranean Sea

10 “I sent among you a plague (A)after the manner of Egypt;
Your young men I killed with a sword,
Along with your captive horses;
I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.

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Also their slain shall be thrown out;
(A)Their stench shall rise from their corpses,
And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

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24 (A)Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: (B)from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the [a]Western Sea, shall be your territory.

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  1. Deuteronomy 11:24 Mediterranean

18 “On the east side you shall mark out the border from between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, along the Jordan, and along the eastern side of the sea. This is the east side.

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19 And the Lord turned a very strong west wind, which took the locusts away and blew them (A)into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the territory of Egypt.

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(A)A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains.
(B)A people come, great and strong,
(C)The like of whom has never been;
Nor will there ever be any such after them,
Even for many successive generations.

A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like (D)the Garden of Eden before them,
(E)And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.
(F)Their appearance is like the appearance of horses;
And like [a]swift steeds, so they run.
(G)With a noise like chariots
Over mountaintops they leap,
Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble,
Like a strong people set in battle array.

Before them the people writhe in pain;
(H)All faces [b]are drained of color.
They run like mighty men,
They climb the wall like men of war;
Every one marches in formation,
And they do not break (I)ranks.
They do not push one another;
Every one marches in his own [c]column.
Though they lunge between the weapons,
They are not [d]cut down.
They run to and fro in the city,
They run on the wall;
They climb into the houses,
They (J)enter at the windows (K)like a thief.

10 (L)The earth quakes before them,
The heavens tremble;
(M)The sun and moon grow dark,
And the stars diminish their brightness.
11 (N)The Lord gives voice before His army,
For His camp is very great;
(O)For strong is the One who executes His word.
For the (P)day of the Lord is great and very terrible;
(Q)Who can endure it?

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  1. Joel 2:4 Or horsemen
  2. Joel 2:6 LXX, Tg., Vg. gather blackness
  3. Joel 2:8 Lit. highway
  4. Joel 2:8 Halted by losses

(A)What the chewing [a]locust left, the (B)swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.

Awake, you (C)drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
(D)For it has been cut off from your mouth.
For (E)a nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
(F)His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a [b]fierce lion.

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  1. Joel 1:4 Exact identity of these locusts unknown
  2. Joel 1:6 Or lioness

12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, (A)in order to cleanse the land. 13 Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain (B)renown for it on the day that (C)I am glorified,” says the Lord God. 14 “They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of [a]a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order (D)to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. 15 The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall [b]set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. 16 The name of the city will also be [c]Hamonah. Thus they shall (E)cleanse the land.” ’

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  1. Ezekiel 39:14 Lit. those who pass through
  2. Ezekiel 39:15 build
  3. Ezekiel 39:16 Lit. Multitude

14 Then the Lord said to me:

“Out of the (A)north calamity shall break forth
On all the inhabitants of the land.
15 For behold, I am (B)calling
All the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says the Lord;
“They shall come and (C)each one set his throne
At the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,
Against all its walls all around,
And against all the cities of Judah.

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When I returned, there, along the bank of the river, were very many (A)trees on one side and the other. Then he said to me: “This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the [a]valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed.

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  1. Ezekiel 47:8 Or Arabah, the Jordan Valley

13 So Hazael said, “But what (A)is your servant—a dog, that he should do this gross thing?”

And Elisha answered, (B)“The Lord has shown me that you will become king over Syria.”

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