Joe 2:1-10 | ESV | STEP | 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 ,

o[See ver. 2 above]

p Nah. 2:10

q Prov. 30:27

r Isa. 33:4

s[Jer. 9:21]

t[Jer. 9:21]

u[John 10:1]

v ch. 3:16; [Ps. 18:7; Amos 8:8]

w ch. 3:15; Isa. 13:10; Ezek. 32:7; Matt. 24:29; [Rev. 9:2]

Joel 2:1-10

The Day of the Lord

1 ^aBlow a trumpet in ^bZion;
sound an alarm on ^cmy holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for ^dthe day of the Lord is coming; it is near,
2 ^ea day of darkness and gloom,
^fa day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
^ga great and powerful people;
^htheir like has never been before,
nor will be again after them
through the years of all generations.
3 ⁱFire devours before them,
and behind them a flame burns.
The land is like ^jthe garden of Eden before them,
but ^kbehind them a desolate wilderness,
and nothing escapes them.
4 ^lTheir appearance is like the appearance of horses,
and like war horses they run.
5 ^mAs with the rumbling of chariots,
they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of ⁿa flame of fire
devouring the stubble,
^olike a powerful army
drawn up for battle.
6 Before them peoples are in anguish;
^pall faces grow pale.
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;
^qeach marches in his path;
they burst through the weapons
and are not halted.
9 ^rThey leap upon the city,
they run upon the walls,
^sthey climb up into the houses,
^tthey enter through the windows ^ulike a thief.
10 ^vThe earth quakes before them;
the heavens tremble.
^wThe sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.