Joel 2:15-27

Blow a horn in Zion,
Solemnize a fast,
Proclaim an assembly! Gather the people,
Bid the congregation purify themselves.
Bring together the old,
Gather the babes
And the sucklings at the breast;
Let the bridegroom come out of his chamber,
The bride from her canopied couch. Between the portico and the altar,
Let the priests, the LORD’s ministers, weep
And say:
“Oh, spare Your people, LORD!
Let not Your possession become a mockery,
To be taunted by nations!
Let not the peoples say,
‘Where is their God?’”
Then the LORD was roused
On behalf of His land
And had compassion
Upon His people. In response to His people
The LORD declared:
“I will grant you the new grain,
The new wine, and the new oil,
And you shall have them in abundance.
Nevermore will I let you be
A mockery among the nations. I will drive the northerner far from you,
I will thrust it into a parched and desolate land—
Its van to the Eastern Sea
And its rear to the Western Sea;
And the stench of it shall go up,
And the foul smell rise.”
For [the LORD] shall work great deeds. Fear not, O soil, rejoice and be glad;
For the LORD has wrought great deeds. Fear not, O beasts of the field,
For the pastures in the wilderness
Are clothed with grass.
The trees have borne their fruit;
Fig tree and vine
Have yielded their strength. O children of Zion, be glad,
Rejoice in the LORD your God.
For He has given you the early rain in [His] kindness,
Now He makes the rain fall [as] formerly—
The early rain and the late— And threshing floors shall be piled with grain,
And vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. “I will repay you for the years^-h
Consumed by swarms and hoppers,
By grubs and locusts,
The great army I let loose against you. And you shall eat your fill
And praise the name of the LORD your God
Who dealt so wondrously with you—
My people shall be shamed no more. And you shall know
That I am in the midst of Israel:
That I the LORD am your God
And there is no other.
And My people shall be shamed no more.”