| { | |
| "title": "Joel", | |
| "language": "en", | |
| "versionTitle": "merged", | |
| "versionSource": "https://www.sefaria.org/Joel", | |
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| "The word of G<small>OD</small> that came to Joel son of Pethuel.", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Listen to this, O elders,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Give ear, all inhabitants of the land.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Has the like of this happened in your days</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Or in the days of your ancestors?</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Tell your children about it,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And let your children tell theirs,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And their children the next generation!</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">What the cutter has left, the locust has devoured;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">What the locust has left, the grub has devoured;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And what the grub has left, the hopper has devoured.</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>cutter…locust…grub…hopper </b>The meaning of the corresponding Heb. terms is uncertain; they probably designate stages in the locust’s development.</i> ", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Wake up, you drunkards, and weep,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Wail, all you swillers of wine—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the new wine that is denied you!</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>denied you </b>Lit. “cut off from your mouth.”</i> ", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For a nation has invaded my land,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Vast beyond counting,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">With teeth like the teeth of a lion,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">With the fangs of a lion’s breed.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They have laid my vines waste</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And splintered my fig trees:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They have stripped off their bark and thrown [it] away;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Their runners have turned white.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Lament—like a maiden girt with sackcloth</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the husband of her youth!</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Offering and libation have ceased</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">From the House of </span> G<small>OD</small>;<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The priests must mourn</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who minister to </span> G<small>OD</small>.", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The country is ravaged,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The ground must mourn;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the new grain is ravaged,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The new wine is dried up,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The new oil has failed.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Farmers are dismayed</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And vine dressers wail</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Over wheat and barley;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the crops of the field are lost.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The vine has dried up,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The fig tree withers,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Pomegranate, palm, and apple—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">All the trees of the field are sear.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And joy has dried up</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Among the people.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Gird yourselves and lament, O priests,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Wail, O ministers of the altar;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Come, spend the night in sackcloth,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">O ministers of my God.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For offering and libation are withheld</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">From the House of your God.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Solemnize a fast,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Proclaim an assembly;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Gather the elders—all the inhabitants of the land—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In the House of </span> the E<small>TERNAL</small> your God,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And cry out to </span> G<small>OD</small>.", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Alas for the day!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the day of </span> G<small>OD</small> is near;<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">It shall come like havoc from Shaddai.</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Shaddai </b>Traditionally “the Almighty”; see Gen. 17.1.</i> ", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For food is cut off</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Before our very eyes,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And joy and gladness</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">From the House of our God.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The seeds have shriveled</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Under their clods.</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>The seeds … clods </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The granaries are desolate,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Barns are in ruins,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the new grain has failed.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">How the animals groan!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The herds of cattle are bewildered</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because they have no pasture,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the flocks of sheep are dazed.</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>dazed </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> ", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To You, O </span> E<small>TERNAL</small> One, I call.<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For fire has consumed</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The pastures in the wilderness,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And flame</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>fire…flame </b>I.e., scorching heat.</i> has devoured<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">All the trees of the countryside.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The very beasts of the field</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Cry out to You;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the watercourses are dried up,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And fire has consumed</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The pastures in the wilderness.</span>" | |
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| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Blow a horn in Zion,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Sound an alarm on My holy mount!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Let all dwellers on earth tremble,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the day of </span> G<small>OD</small> has come!<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">It is close—</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">A day of darkness and gloom,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">A day of densest cloud</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Spread like soot over the hills.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">A vast, enormous horde—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Nothing like it has ever happened,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And it shall never happen again</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Through the years and ages.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Their vanguard is a consuming fire,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Their rear guard a devouring flame.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Before them the land was like the Garden of Eden,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Behind them, a desolate waste:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Nothing has escaped them.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They have the appearance of horses,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They gallop just like steeds.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">With a clatter as of chariots</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They bound on the hilltops,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">With a noise like a blazing fire</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Consuming straw;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Like an enormous horde</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Arrayed for battle.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Peoples tremble before them,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">All faces turn ashen.</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>turn ashen </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain; cf. Nah. 2.11.</i> ", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They rush like warriors,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They scale a wall like fighters.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And each keeps to his own track.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Their paths never cross;</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>cross </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> ", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Not a single one jostles another,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Each keeps to his own course.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And should they fall through a loophole,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They do not get hurt.</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>And should they fall … not get hurt </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> ", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They rush up the wall,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They dash about in the city;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They climb into the houses,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">They enter like thieves</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">By way of the windows.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Before them earth trembles,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Heaven shakes,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Sun and moon are darkened,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And stars withdraw their brightness.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And </span> G<small>OD</small> roars aloud<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">At the head of the divine army;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For vast indeed is this host,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Numberless are those that do God’s bidding.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For great is the day of </span> G<small>OD</small>,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Most terrible—who can endure it?</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">“Yet even now”—says </span> G<small>OD</small> —<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">“Turn back to Me with all your hearts,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And with fasting, weeping, and lamenting.”</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Rend your hearts</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Rather than your garments,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And turn back to </span> the E<small>TERNAL</small> your God.<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For [God] is gracious and compassionate,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Slow to anger, abounding in kindness,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And renouncing punishment.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who knows but [God] may turn and relent,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And leave a blessing behind</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For grain offering and drink offering</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To </span> the E<small>TERNAL</small> your God?<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">When the locusts depart, there will again be yield enough for offerings; see 1.9.</i> ", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Blow a horn in Zion,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Solemnize a fast,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Proclaim an assembly!</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Gather the people,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Bid the congregation purify themselves.</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>purify themselves </b>Cf. Exod. 19.10; Zeph. 1.7.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Bring together the old,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Gather the babes</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the sucklings at the breast;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Let the bridegroom come out of his chamber,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The bride from her canopied couch.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Between the portico and the altar,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Let the priests, </span> G<small>OD</small>’s ministers, weep<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And say:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">“Oh, spare Your people, </span> E<small>TERNAL</small> One !<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Let not Your possession become a mockery,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To be taunted by nations!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Let not the peoples say,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">‘Where is their God?’”</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Then </span> G<small>OD</small> was roused<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In behalf of this land</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And had compassion</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Upon this people.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In response to this covenanted people</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\"> \nG<small>OD</small>\n </span> declared:<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">“I will grant you the new grain,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The new wine, and the new oil,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And you shall have them in abundance.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Nevermore will I let you be</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">A mockery among the nations.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will drive the northerner</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the northerner </b>I.e., the locusts. Emendation yields “My multitude”; cf. “nation” (1.6), “horde,” “army,” and “host” (2.2, 5, 11, 25).</i> far from you,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will thrust it into a parched and desolate land—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Its van to the Eastern Sea</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the Eastern Sea </b>The Dead Sea.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And its rear to the Western Sea;</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>the Western Sea </b>The Mediterranean Sea.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the stench of it shall go up,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the foul smell rise.”</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For [</span> G<small>OD</small> ] shall work great deeds.", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Fear not, O soil, rejoice and be glad;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For </span> G<small>OD</small> has wrought great deeds.", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Fear not, O beasts of the field,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the pastures in the wilderness</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Are clothed with grass.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The trees have borne their fruit;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Fig tree and vine</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Have yielded their strength.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">O children of Zion, be glad,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Rejoice in </span> the E<small>TERNAL</small> your God.<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For you have been given the early rain out of kindness,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Now the rain is made to fall [as] formerly—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The early rain and the late—</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And threshing floors shall be piled with grain,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">“I will repay you for the years</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">i</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>for the years </b>Emendation yields “double what was.”</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Consumed by swarms and hoppers,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">By grubs and locusts,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The great army I let loose against you.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And you shall eat your fill</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And praise the name of </span> the E<small>TERNAL</small> your God<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Who dealt so wondrously with you—</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">My people shall be shamed no more.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And you shall know</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">That I am in the midst of Israel:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">That I </span> the E<small>TERNAL</small> One am your God<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And there is no other.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And My people shall be shamed no more.”</span>" | |
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| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">After that,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will pour out My spirit on all flesh;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Your sons and daughters shall prophesy;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Your elders shall dream dreams,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And your youths shall see visions.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will even pour out My spirit</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Upon male and female slaves in those days.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Before the great and terrible day of </span> G<small>OD</small> comes,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Before the great and terrible day of G<small>OD</small> comes </b>Moved up from v. 4 for clarity.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will set portents in the sky and on earth:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Blood and fire and pillars of smoke;</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The sun shall turn into darkness</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And the moon into blood.</span><br>", | |
| "But everyone who invokes G<small>OD</small>’s name shall escape; for there shall be a remnant on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, as G<small>OD</small> promised. Anyone who invokes G<small>OD</small> will be among the survivors.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Anyone who invokes G<small>OD</small> will be among the survivors </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> " | |
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| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For lo! in those days</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And in that time,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">When I restore the fortunes</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Of Judah and Jerusalem,</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">I will gather all the nations</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Jehoshaphat </b>Here understood as “G<small>OD</small> contends”; contrast v. 12.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">There I will contend with them</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Over My very own people, Israel,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Which they scattered among the nations.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For they divided My land among themselves</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And cast lots over My people;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And they bartered a boy for a whore,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And sold a girl for wine, which they drank.</span><br>", | |
| "What is this you are doing to Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Are you requiting Me for something I have done, or are you doing something for My benefit? Quick as a flash, I will pay you back; ", | |
| "for you have taken My gold and My silver, and have carried off My precious treasures to your palaces; ", | |
| "and you have sold the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem to the Ionians, so that you have removed them far away from their homeland. ", | |
| "Behold, I will rouse them to leave the place you have sold them to, and I will pay you back: ", | |
| "I will deliver your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them into captivity to a distant nation—for G<small>OD</small> has spoken.", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Proclaim this among the nations:</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Prepare for battle!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Arouse the warriors,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Let all the fighters come and draw near!</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Beat your plowshares</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>plowshares </b>See note at Isa. 2.4.</i> into swords,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And your pruning hooks into spears.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Let even the weakling say, “I am strong.”</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Rouse yourselves</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Rouse yourselves </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> and come,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">All you nations;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Come together</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">From round about.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">There bring down</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>bring down </b>Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Your warriors, O </span> E<small>TERNAL</small> One !", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Let the nations rouse themselves and march up</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">To the Valley of Jehoshaphat;</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>Jehoshaphat </b>Here understood as “G<small>OD</small> judges”; contrast v. 2.</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For there I will sit in judgment</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Over all the nations round about.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Swing the sickle,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the crop is ripe;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Come and tread,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the winepress is full,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The vats are overflowing!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For great is their wickedness.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Multitudes upon multitudes</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In the Valley of Decision!</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">For the day of </span> G<small>OD</small> is at hand<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In the Valley of Decision.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Sun and moon are darkened,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And stars withdraw their brightness.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And </span> G<small>OD</small> will roar from Zion,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And shout aloud from Jerusalem,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">So that heaven and earth tremble.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">But </span> G<small>OD</small> will be a shelter to this covenanted people,<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">A refuge to the children of Israel.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And you shall know that I </span> the E<small>TERNAL</small> your God<br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Dwell in Zion, My holy mount.</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And Jerusalem shall be holy;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Nevermore shall strangers pass through it.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And in that day,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The mountains shall drip with wine,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">The hills shall flow with milk,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And all the watercourses of Judah shall flow with water;</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">A spring shall issue from the House of </span> G<small>OD</small> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And shall water the Wadi of the Acacias.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Egypt shall be a desolation,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And Edom a desolate waste,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Because of the outrage to the people of Judah,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">In whose land they shed the blood of the innocent.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">But Judah shall be inhabited forever,</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And Jerusalem throughout the ages.</span>", | |
| "<span class=\"poetry indentAll\">Thus I will treat as innocent their blood</span><br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">That I have not treated as innocent;</span><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\"><b>I will treat as innocent their blood / That I have not treated as innocent </b>Emendation yields “their unavenged blood shall be avenged.”</i> <br><span class=\"poetry indentAll\">And </span> G<small>OD</small> shall dwell in Zion." | |
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| "THE JPS TANAKH: Gender-Sensitive Edition", | |
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| "Tanakh", | |
| "Prophets" | |
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| "Verse" | |
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