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Promise of the Ruach Adonai

“So it will be afterward,[a]
I will pour out My Ruach on all flesh:[b]
your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.
“Also on the male and the female servants
will I pour out My spirit in those days.[c]
I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth—
blood, fire and pillars of smoke.[d]
The sun will be turned into darkness
and the moon into blood, before the great and awesome day of Adonai comes.
Then all who call on Adonai’s Name[e] will escape,
for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
there will be rescue, as Adonai has said,
    among the survivors whom Adonai is calling.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:1 Traditional Christian texts are numbered 2:28-3:21.
  2. Joel 3:1 cf. Mark 1:8; Acts 2:17-21; Gal. 3:14.
  3. Joel 3:2 cf. 1 Cor. 12:13; Gal. 3:28.
  4. Joel 3:3 Cf. Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:24-25; Luke 21:11; Acts 2:19; Rev. 8:7.
  5. Joel 3:5 Heb. deliver, save; cf. Acts 2:17-21; Rom. 10:13.

The Nations Judged

[a]“In those days and at that time,
    when I restore the fortunes(A) of Judah(B) and Jerusalem,
I will gather(C) all nations
    and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.[b](D)
There I will put them on trial(E)
    for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,
because they scattered(F) my people among the nations
    and divided up my land.
They cast lots(G) for my people
    and traded boys for prostitutes;
    they sold girls for wine(H) to drink.

“Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon(I) and all you regions of Philistia?(J) Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.(K) For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[c](L)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:1 In Hebrew texts 3:1-21 is numbered 4:1-21.
  2. Joel 3:2 Jehoshaphat means the Lord judges; also in verse 12.
  3. Joel 3:5 Or palaces