Douay Rheims Original ↷
Joel 2 📜 📕 ↷
Army of Locusts
1 SOUND ye with the trumpet in Sion, howl in my holy mount, let all the inhabitants of the land be troubled: Because the day of our Lord cometh,📜💬📚
2 because the day of darkness, and of mist is near, the day of cloud, & whirlwind: as the morning spread upon the mountains much people & strong: the like to it hath not been from the beginning, and after it shall not be even unto the years of generation & generation.📜💬📚
3 Before the face thereof a devouring fire, & after it a burning flame: the land before it as it were a garden of pleasure, and after it the wilderness of a desert, neither is there that can escape it.📜💬📚
4 As the appearance of horses, their appearance, & as horsemen so shall they run.📜💬📚
5 As the sound of chariots upon the top of mountains shall they leap, as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, as a strong people prepared to battle.📜💬📚
6 At his presence the people shall be vexed: all visages shall be made like a pot.📜💬📚
7 They shall run as valiants: as men of war they shall scale the wall: the men shall march in their ways, & shall not decline from their paths.📜💬📚
8 None shall press his brother: they shall walk every one in their own path: yea & through the windows they shall fall, & shall not demolish.📜💬📚
9 They shall enter the city: they shall run on the wall, they shall climb the houses, by the windows they shall enter as a thief.📜💬📚
10 At his presence the earth hath trembled, the heavens are moved: the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining.📜💬📚
11 And our Lord hath given his voice before the face of his host: because his camps are exceeding many, because strong & doing his word: for great is the day of our Lord, and terrible exceedingly: & who shall sustain it?📜💬📚
Return with All Your Heart
12 Now therefore saith our Lord: Convert to me in all your heart, in fasting, & in weeping, and in mourning.📜💬📚
13 And rent your hearts, and not your garments, & turn to the Lord your God: because he is benign & merciful, patient and of much mercy, & ready to be gracious upon the malice.📜💬📚
14 Who knoweth if he will convert, & forgive, and leave after him benediction, sacrifice, and libament to the Lord your God?📜💬📚
15 Sound ye with the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly,📜💬📚
16 gather together the people, sanctify the Church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, & them that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth to his chamber, & the bride out of her bride-chamber.📜💬📚
17 Between the porch & the altar the priests our Lord's ministers shall weep, & shall say: Spare o Lord, spare thy people: and give not thine inheritance into reproach, that the nations have dominion over them. Why say they in the peoples: Where is their God?📜💬📚
Restoration Promised
18 Our Lord hath been zealous to his land, & hath spared his people.📜💬📚
19 And our Lord answered, and said to this people: Behold I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be replenished with them: & I will give you no more to be a reproach in the Gentiles.📜💬📚
20 And him that is from the North, I will make far from you: & I will expel him into a land unpassable, & desert, his face against the east sea, & his extreme part to the last sea: & his stink shall ascend, & his rottenness shall ascend, because he hath done proudly.📜💬📚
21 Fear not o land, rejoice & be glad: because our Lord hath magnified to do.📜💬📚
22 Fear not ye beasts of the region: because the beautiful things of the desert are sprung, because the tree hath brought his fruit, the fig-tree, & the vine have given their vigour.📜💬📚
23 And ye children of Sion rejoice, & be joyful in the Lord your God: because he hath given you a Doctor of justice, & he will make the early and the late shower to descend to you as in the beginning.📜💬📚
24 And the floors shall be filled with wheat, and the presses shall overflow with wine and oil.📜💬📚
25 And I will render you the years, which the locust, the bruke, and the blast, and the eruke hath eaten: my great strength which I have sent upon you.📜💬📚
26 And you shall eat eating, and shall be filled: and you shall praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath done marvels with you, and my people shall not be confounded for ever.📜💬📚
27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: & I, the Lord your God, and there is none besides: and my people shall not be confounded for ever.📜💬📚
I Will Pour Out My Spirit
28 And it shall be after this: I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons, and your daughters shall prophesy: your ancients shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.📜💬📚
29 Yea and upon my servants and handmaids in those days I will pour out my spirit.📜💬📚
30 And I will give wonders in heaven, and in earth, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.📜💬📚
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood: before the great and horrible day of the Lord doth come.📜💬📚
32 And it shall be, every one that shall invocate the name of the Lord, shall be saved: because in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem shall be salvation, as our Lord hath said, and in the residue whom our Lord shall call.📜💬📚
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