Joel 2:1 - 2:11

Blow a trumpet in Zion,

And make a loud shout on My holy mountain!

Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,

For the day of Yahweh is coming;

Surely it is near,

A day of darkness and thick darkness,

A day of clouds and dense gloom.

As the dawn is spread over the mountains,

So there is a numerous and mighty people;

There has never been anything like it,

Nor will there be again after it

For the years from generation to generation.

A fire consumes before them,

And behind them a flame burns.

The land is like the garden of Eden before them

But a desolate wilderness behind them,

And nothing at all escapes them.

Their appearance is like the appearance of horses;

And like war horses, so they run.

With a noise as of chariots

They leap on the tops of the mountains,

Like the crackling of a flame of fire consumes the stubble,

Like a mighty people arranged for battle.

Before them the peoples are writhing;

All faces turn pale.

They run like mighty men;

They climb up the wall like men of war;

And they each march in line,

And they do not deviate from their paths.

They do not crowd each other;

They march everyone in his path;

When they fall against the defending weapons,

They do not break ranks.

They rush on the city;

They run on the wall;

They climb up into the houses;

They enter through the windows like a thief.

Before them the earth trembles;

The heavens quake;

The sun and the moon grow dark,

And the stars lose their brightness.

But Yahweh gives forth His voice before His military force;

Surely His camp is very numerous,

For mighty is he who does His word.

The day of Yahweh is indeed great and very awesome,

And who can endure it?