Yahweh Will Spare His People
18 Then Yahweh will be azealous for His land
And will bspare His people.
19 Then Yahweh will answer and say to His people,
“Behold, I am going to asend you grain, new wine, and oil,
And you will be satisfied in full with them;
And I will bnever again make you a reproach among the nations.
20 But I will remove the anorthern military force far from you,
And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,
And its vanguard into the beastern sea,
And its rear guard into the cwestern sea.
And its dstench will rise up, and its foul smell will rise up,
For it has done great things.”
21 aDo not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad,
For Yahweh has done bgreat things.
22 Do not fear, beasts of the field,
For the apastures of the wilderness have turned green,
For the tree has borne its fruit;
The fig tree and the vine have yielded their full force.
23 So rejoice, O asons of Zion,
And bbe glad in Yahweh your God,
For He has cgiven you the early rain in righteousness.
And He has poured down for you the rain,
The early and dlate rains as before.
24 The threshing floors will be full of grain,
And the vats will aoverflow with the new wine and oil.
25 “Then I will pay back to you in full for the years
That the swarming alocust has consumed,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust,
My great military force which I sent among you.
26 And you will have plenty to aconsume and be satisfied
And bpraise the name of Yahweh your God,
Who has cdealt wondrously with you;
Then My people will dnever be put to shame.
27 Thus you will aknow that I am in the midst of Israel,
And that I am Yahweh your God,
And there is bno other;
And My people will never be cput to shame.
Yahweh Will Pour Out His Spirit
28 “aAnd it will be afterwards
That I will bpour out My Spirit on all cmankind;
And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy;
Your old men will dream dreams;
Your young men will see visions.
29 Even on the amale slaves and female slaves
I will in those days pour out My Spirit.
Deliverance in the Day of Yahweh
30 And I will aput wonders in the sky and on the earth,
Blood, fire, and columns of smoke.
31 The asun will be turned into darkness
And the moon into blood
Before the bgreat and awesome day of Yahweh comes.
32 And it will be that aeveryone who calls on the name of Yahweh
Will be delivered;
For bon Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
There will be those who cescape,
As Yahweh has said,
Even among the dsurvivors whom Yahweh calls.