← Joel
- A. 1 Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near,
- 2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
- B. 3 Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.
- C. 4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run.
- 5 As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.
- D. 6 Before them peoples are in anguish; all faces grow pale.
- C'. 7 Like warriors they charge; like soldiers they scale the wall. They march each on his way; they do not swerve from their paths.
- 8 They do not jostle one another; each marches in his path; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.
- 9 They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.
- B'. 10 The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
- A'. 11 The LORD utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the LORD is great and very awesome; who can endure it?