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An Invasion of Locusts
Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?
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Alas for that day! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
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The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.
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An Army of Locusts
Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming. It is close at hand—
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a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was in ancient times nor ever will be in ages to come.
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The Lord thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and mighty is the army that obeys his command. The day of the Lord is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it?
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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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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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The Nations Judged
“In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
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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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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
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“In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the Lord’s house and will water the valley of acacias.
