Joel 2 (NET)

Joel 2:1¹Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear, for the day of the Lord is about to come. Indeed, it is near!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 2:151 Pet 4:7Joel 1:15Joel 3:17Mal 4:1Jer 5:22Zeph 1:141 Thess 5:2Hos 5:8Zeph 3:11

Joel 2:2²It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army — there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 1:6Zeph 1:14-15Amos 5:18-20Joel 2:10-11Joel 2:5Joel 2:25Dan 12:1Exod 10:6Isa 5:30Isa 8:22

Joel 2:3³Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness— for nothing escapes them!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 51:3Gen 2:8Joel 1:19-20Zech 7:14Amos 7:4Ps 50:3Exod 10:15Exod 10:5Ezek 31:8-9Gen 13:10

Joel 2:4⁴They look like horses; they charge ahead like war horses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 9:7

Joel 2:5⁵They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops, like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble, like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 9:9Isa 5:24Isa 30:30Matt 3:12Nah 2:3-4Nah 3:2-3

Joel 2:6⁶People writhe in fear when they see them. All their faces turn pale with fright.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Nah 2:10Isa 13:8Jer 30:6Lam 4:8Jer 8:21Ps 119:83

Joel 2:7⁷They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter their path.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 30:272 Sam 1:232 Sam 2:18-192 Sam 5:8Isa 5:26-29Jer 5:10Joel 2:9Ps 19:5

Joel 2:8⁸They do not jostle one another; each of them marches straight ahead. They burst through the city defenses and do not break ranks.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 23:102 Chr 32:5Job 33:18Neh 4:23Job 36:12Neh 4:17Song 4:13

Joel 2:9⁹They rush into the city; they scale its walls. They climb up into the houses; they go in through the windows like a thief.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 9:21John 10:1Exod 10:6

Joel 2:10¹⁰The earth quakes before them; the sky reverberates. The sun and the moon grow dark; the stars refuse to shine.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 24:29Isa 13:10Joel 3:15-16Ps 18:7Acts 2:20Ezek 32:7-8Mark 13:24-25Jer 4:23Rev 6:12Isa 34:4

Joel 2:11¹¹The voice of the Lord thunders as he leads his army. Indeed, his warriors are innumerable; Surely his command is carried out! Yes, the day of the Lord is awesome and very terrifying—who can survive it?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mal 3:2Nah 1:6Jer 30:7Joel 3:16Ps 46:6Rev 18:8Rev 6:17Amos 5:20Isa 13:4Isa 42:13

Joel 2:12¹²“Yet even now,” the Lord says, “return to me with all your heart— with fasting, weeping, and mourning.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 4:8-9Isa 55:6-72 Chr 7:13-14Hos 12:6Jer 29:12-13Jer 4:1Hos 6:1Deut 4:29-301 Sam 7:6Jonah 3:5-8

Joel 2:13¹³Tear your hearts, not just your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love —often relenting from calamitous punishment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 86:15Ps 34:18Isa 57:15Exod 34:6-7Matt 5:3-4Mic 7:18Jas 1:19-20Ps 86:5Jer 18:7-8Ps 103:8

Joel 2:14¹⁴Who knows? Perhaps he will be compassionate and grant a reprieve, and leave blessing in his wake — a meal offering and a drink offering for you to offer to the Lord your God!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jonah 3:9Hag 2:192 Kgs 19:42 Sam 12:22Amos 5:15Exod 32:30Joel 1:13Jonah 1:6Zeph 2:31 Sam 6:5

Joel 2:15¹⁵Blow the trumpet in Zion. Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 1:14Joel 2:11 Kgs 21:12Num 10:31 Kgs 21:92 Kgs 10:20Jer 36:9

Joel 2:16¹⁶Gather the people; sanctify an assembly! Gather the elders; gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her private quarters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 20:132 Chr 29:51 Cor 7:51 Sam 16:5Exod 19:10Exod 19:22Joel 1:142 Chr 29:23-242 Chr 30:172 Chr 30:19

Joel 2:17¹⁷Let the priests, those who serve the Lord, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say, “Have pity, O Lord, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 115:2Ezek 8:16Ps 79:101 Kgs 6:3Amos 7:2Dan 9:18-19Exod 34:9Hos 14:2Joel 1:9Matt 23:35

Joel 2:18¹⁸Then the Lord became zealous for his land; he had compassion on his people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 8:2Ps 103:13Zech 1:14Jas 5:11Lam 3:22Isa 63:15Isa 63:9Isa 60:10Jer 31:20Luke 15:20

Joel 2:19¹⁹The Lord responded to his people, “Look! I am about to restore your grain as well as fresh wine and olive oil. You will be fully satisfied. I will never again make you an object of mockery among the nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:29Ezek 36:15Isa 62:8-9Jer 31:12Amos 9:13-14Joel 2:24Ezek 39:29Hag 2:16-19Hos 2:15Isa 65:21-24

Joel 2:20²⁰I will remove the one from the north far from you. I will drive him out to a dry and desolate place. Those in front will be driven eastward into the Dead Sea, and those in back westward into the Mediterranean Sea. His stench will rise up as a foul smell.” Indeed, the Lord has accomplished great things!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 14:8Amos 4:10Deut 11:24Isa 34:3Exod 10:19Ezek 39:12-16Ezek 47:18Jer 1:14-15Joel 1:4-6Joel 2:2-11

Joel 2:21²¹Do not fear, my land. Rejoice and be glad, because the Lord has accomplished great things!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zeph 3:16-17Isa 41:10Isa 54:4Ps 126:1-31 Sam 12:16Jer 33:31 Sam 12:24Isa 35:1Jer 30:9-10Deut 4:32

Joel 2:22²²Do not fear, wild animals. For the pastures of the wilderness are again green with grass. Indeed, the trees bear their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield to their fullest.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 8:12Ps 65:12Amos 9:14-15Isa 30:23-24Isa 51:3Joel 1:18-20Ps 107:35-38Ps 145:15-16Ps 147:8-9Ps 67:6

Joel 2:23²³Citizens of Zion, rejoice! Be glad because of what the Lord your God has done! For he has given to you the early rains as vindication. He has sent to you the rains— both the early and the late rains as formerly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 5:7-8Phil 4:4Lev 26:4Deut 11:14Hos 6:3Isa 12:2-6Isa 41:16Ps 149:2Phil 3:1Zech 10:1

Joel 2:24²⁴The threshing floors are full of grain; the vats overflow with fresh wine and olive oil.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 9:13Mal 3:10Joel 3:18Joel 3:13Prov 3:9-10Lev 26:10

Joel 2:25²⁵I will make up for the years that the ‘arbeh -locust consumed your crops — the yeleq -locust, the hasil -locust, and the gazam -locust — my great army that I sent against you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 10:6Joel 1:4-7Joel 2:2-11

Joel 2:26²⁶You will have plenty to eat, and your hunger will be fully satisfied; you will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has acted wondrously in your behalf. My people will never again be put to shame.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:11Ps 22:26Deut 12:7Rom 5:5Isa 45:17Isa 49:23Lev 26:51 John 2:28Isa 25:1Isa 54:4

Joel 2:27²⁷You will be convinced that I am in the midst of Israel. I am the Lord your God; there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 37:26-28Lev 26:11-12Zeph 3:17Isa 45:5Ezek 39:28Joel 3:17Deut 23:14Isa 12:6Joel 2:26Ps 46:5

Joel 2:28²⁸(3:1) After all of this I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your elderly will have prophetic dreams; your young men will see visions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:16-21Ezek 39:29Acts 2:39Isa 32:15Acts 2:2-4Isa 44:3Zech 12:10Acts 11:15-18Prov 1:23John 7:39

Joel 2:29²⁹Even on male and female servants I will pour out my Spirit in those days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 12:13Gal 3:28Col 3:11

Joel 2:30³⁰I will produce portents both in the sky and on the earth— blood, fire, and columns of smoke.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:19-20Luke 21:11Matt 24:29Luke 21:25-26Judg 20:40Mark 13:24-25Rev 6:12-17Gen 19:28Rev 18:9Josh 8:20

Joel 2:31³¹The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the Lord comes— that great and terrible day!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 6:12-13Matt 24:29Mal 4:1Mal 4:5Joel 3:15Joel 2:10Mark 13:24-25Zeph 1:14-16Isa 13:9-10Luke 21:25

Joel 2:32³²It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the Lord has promised; the remnant will be those whom the Lord will call.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:11-14Acts 2:20-21Isa 46:13Jer 31:7Jer 33:3Ps 50:15Rom 11:26Rom 9:27Zech 13:9Isa 11:11