Quotes from Joel

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

1. 2

   The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

2. 3

   Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

3. 4

   And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

4. 5

   And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

5. 6

   And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

6. 7

   Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

7. 8

   Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

8. 9

   That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.