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“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm— my great army that I sent among you.
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You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked wonders for you; never again will my people be shamed.
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Then you will know that I am in Israel, that I am the Lord your God, and that there is no other; never again will my people be shamed.
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The Day of the Lord
“And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
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Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
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I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
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The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
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And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, even among the survivors whom the Lord calls.
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I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
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They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine to drink.
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“Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? 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.
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For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.
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You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.
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“See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.
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I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken.
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Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, “I am strong!”
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Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, Lord!
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“Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.
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Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow— so great is their wickedness!”
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The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine.
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The Lord will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the heavens will tremble. But the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
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But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
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Shall I leave their innocent blood unavenged? No, I will not.” The Lord dwells in Zion!