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Joel 2:23

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

People of Zion, celebrate in honour of the LORD your God! He is generous and has sent the autumn and spring rains in the proper seasons.

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listen from your home in heaven and forgive them. The people of Israel are your servants, so teach them to live right. And please send rain on the land you promised them for ever.

One of a thousand angels then comes to our rescue by saying we are innocent.

to release their cargo— sometimes as punishment for sin, sometimes as kindness.

I hope my thoughts will please you, because you are the one who makes me glad.

He fills the sky with clouds and sends rain to the earth, so that the hills will be green with grass.

People of Israel, rejoice because of your Creator. People of Zion, celebrate because of your King.

You are my strong shield, and I trust you completely. You have helped me, and I will celebrate and thank you in song.

And so your good people should celebrate and shout.

When they reach Dry Valley, springs start flowing, and the autumn rain fills it with pools of water.

When a ruler is happy and pleased with you, it's like refreshing rain, and you will live.

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, you will hear a voice saying, “This is the road! Now follow it.”

The Lord will send rain to water the seeds you have planted—your fields will produce more crops than you need, and your cattle will graze in open pastures.

A strong wind will scatter them in all directions. Then you will celebrate and praise me, your LORD, the holy God of Israel.

I celebrate and shout because of my LORD God. His saving power and justice are the very clothes I wear. They are more beautiful than the jewellery worn by a bride or a groom.

So I, the LORD, refused to let the spring rains fall. But just like a prostitute, you still have no shame for what you have done.

You refuse to say, “Let's worship the LORD! He's the one who sends rain in spring and autumn and gives us a good harvest.”

These are Zion's people, worth more than purest gold; yet they are counted worthless like dishes of clay.

They will live around my holy mountain, and I will bless them by sending more than enough rain

Let's do our best to know the LORD. His coming is as certain as the morning sun; he will refresh us like rain renewing the earth in the springtime.

and I will send rain to make your crops grow and your trees produce fruit.

Three months before harvest, I kept back the rain. Sometimes I would let it fall on one town or field but not on another, and pastures dried up.

I, the LORD, am the one who sends storm clouds and showers of rain to make fields produce. So when the crops need rain, you should pray to me.

Israel will be like a tribe of warriors celebrating with wine. When their children see this, they will also be happy because of me, the LORD.

I will use Judah as my bow and Israel as my arrow. I will take the people of Zion as my sword and attack the Greeks.

Everyone in Jerusalem, celebrate and shout! Your king has won a victory, and he is coming to you. He is humble and rides on a donkey; he comes on the colt of a donkey.

But he showed that he was there by the good things he did. God sends rain from heaven and makes your crops grow. He gives food to you and makes your hearts glad.

he will send rain at the right seasons, so you will have more than enough food, wine, and olive oil, and there will be plenty of grass for your cattle.

The LORD will open the storehouses of the skies where he keeps the rain, and he will send rain on your land at just the right times. He will make you successful in everything you do. You will have plenty of money to lend to other nations, but you won't need to borrow any yourself.

Israel, I will teach you. My words will be like gentle rain on tender young plants, or like dew on the grass.

Finally, my dear friends, be glad that you belong to the Lord. It doesn't bother me to write the same things to you that I have written before. In fact, it is for your own good.

But we are the ones who are truly circumcised, because we worship by the power of God's Spirit and take pride in Christ Jesus. We don't boast about what we have done,

Always be glad because of the Lord! I will say it again: be glad.




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