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A Quiet Weapon For A Silent War

Joel 2:18-27

...the LORD will pity his people
and be indignant
for the honor of his land!

He will reply,

"Look!
I am sending you grain
and wine
and olive oil,
enough
to satisfy
your needs.
You will
no longer be
an object
of mockery
among the surrounding nations.

I will remove these armies
from the north
and send them far away.
I will drive them back
into the parched wastelands,
where they will die.

Those in the rear will go into the Dead Sea;
those at the front will go into the Mediterranean.
The stench of their rotting bodies will rise over the land."

Surely the LORD has done great things!

Don't be afraid, my people!
Be glad now and rejoice
because
the LORD has done great things.

Don't be afraid, you animals of the field!
The pastures will soon be green.
The trees will again be filled with luscious fruit;
fig trees and grapevines will flourish once more.

Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem!
Rejoice in the LORD your God!
For the rains he sends
are an expression of his grace.
Once more the autumn rains will come,
as well as the rains of spring.

The threshing floors
will again be piled high
with grain,
and the presses
will overflow
with wine and olive oil.

The LORD says,

"I will give you back
what you lost
to
the stripping locusts,
the cutting locusts
the swarming locusts
and the hopping locusts.
It was I
who sent
this great
destroying army
against
you.
Once again
you will have all the food you want,
and you will praise the LORD your God,
who does these miracles for you.
Never again will my people
be disgraced like this.
Then you will know
that I am here
among my people
of Israel
and that I
alone
am
the LORD
your God.

My people will never again be disgraced like this.