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23 “Be glad then, you children of Zion,
    and rejoice in Yahweh, your God;
    for he gives you the early rain in just measure,
    and he causes the rain to come down for you,
    the early rain and the latter rain,
    as before.
24 The threshing floors will be full of wheat,
    and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,
    the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar,
    my great army, which I sent among you.
26 You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied,
    and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God,
    who has dealt wondrously with you;
    and my people will never again be disappointed.
27 You will know that I am among Israel,
    and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else;
    and my people will never again be disappointed.

28 “It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
    and your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
    Your old men will dream dreams.
    Your young men will see visions.
29 And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days,
    I will pour out my Spirit.
30 I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
    blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun will be turned into darkness,
    and the moon into blood,
    before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
32 It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved;
    for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape,
    as Yahweh has said,
    and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

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