24 O Lord, how manifold are your works!
    In (A)wisdom have you made them all;
    the earth is full of your creatures.
25 Here is the sea, great and wide,
    (B)which teems with creatures innumerable,
    living things both small and great.
26 There go the ships,
    and (C)Leviathan, which you formed to (D)play in it.[a]

27 These (E)all look to you,
    to (F)give them their food in due season.
28 When you give it to them, they gather it up;
    when you (G)open your hand, they are filled with good things.
29 When you (H)hide your face, they are (I)dismayed;
    when you (J)take away their breath, they die
    and (K)return to their dust.
30 When you (L)send forth your Spirit,[b] they are created,
    and you (M)renew the face of the ground.

31 May the glory of the Lord (N)endure forever;
    may the Lord (O)rejoice in his works,
32 who looks on the earth and it (P)trembles,
    who (Q)touches the mountains and they smoke!
33 I will sing to the Lord (R)as long as I live;
    I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
34 May my (S)meditation be pleasing to him,
    for I rejoice in the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 104:26 Or you formed to play with
  2. Psalm 104:30 Or breath

35 Let (A)sinners be consumed from the earth,
    and let the wicked be no more!
(B)Bless the Lord, O my soul!
(C)Praise the Lord!

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The Lord Had Pity

18 (A)Then the Lord became jealous for his land
    (B)and had pity on his people.
19 The Lord answered and said to his people,
“Behold, (C)I am sending to you
    grain, wine, and oil,
    (D)and you will be satisfied;
and I will no more make you
    a reproach among the nations.

20 “I will remove the northerner far from you,
    and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard[a] into (E)the eastern sea,
    and his rear guard[b] into (F)the western sea;
(G)the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
    for he has done great things.

21 “Fear not, O land;
    be glad and rejoice,
    for (H)the Lord has done great things!
22 Fear not, (I)you beasts of the field,
    for (J)the pastures of the wilderness are green;
(K)the tree bears its fruit;
    the fig tree and (L)vine give their full yield.

23 (M)“Be glad, O children of Zion,
    and (N)rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given (O)the early rain for your vindication;
    he has poured down for you abundant rain,
    (P)the early and (Q)the latter rain, as before.

24 “The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
    the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
25 I will restore[c] to you the years
    that (R)the swarming locust has eaten,
(S)the hopper, (T)the destroyer, and (U)the cutter,
    (V)my great army, which I sent among you.

26 (W)“You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
    and praise the name of the Lord your God,
    who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people (X)shall never again be put to shame.
27 (Y)You shall know that I am (Z)in the midst of Israel,
    and that (AA)I am the Lord your God (AB)and there is none else.
And my people (AC)shall never again be put to shame.

The Lord Will Pour Out His Spirit

28 [d] (AD)“And it shall come to pass afterward,
    that (AE)I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
(AF)your sons and (AG)your daughters shall prophesy,
    your old men shall dream dreams,
    and your young men shall see visions.
29 (AH)Even on the male and female servants
    in those days I will pour out my Spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:20 Hebrew face
  2. Joel 2:20 Hebrew his end
  3. Joel 2:25 Or pay back
  4. Joel 2:28 Ch 3:1 in Hebrew

Future Glory

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (A)are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for (B)the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation (C)was subjected to futility, not willingly, but (D)because of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that (E)the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that (F)the whole creation (G)has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have (H)the firstfruits of the Spirit, (I)groan inwardly as (J)we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, (K)the redemption of our bodies. 24 For (L)in this hope we were saved. Now (M)hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

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