13. Rend your heart,and not your garments;return to the Lord your God,for He is gracious and merciful,slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;and He relents from punishing.
14. Who knows? He might turn aside and relent,and He might leave behind a blessing—a grain offering and a food offeringfor the Lord your God.
15. Blow the ram’s horn in Zion,consecrate a fast,call a sacred assembly.
16. Gather the people,consecrate the congregation,assemble the elders,gather the childrenand those nursing at the breast;let the bridegroom leave his roomand the bride her chamber.
17. Between the temple porch and the altar,let the priests, ministers of the Lord, weep and say,“Have pity upon Your people,and do not make Your heritage a disgrace,a mockery among the nations.Why should they say among the peoples,‘Where is their God?’ ”
18. Then the Lord became jealous for His landand took pity upon His people.
19. So the Lord answered and said to His people, Here! I am sending you grain, new wine, and oil,and you will be satisfied,and I will never again make youa disgrace among the nations.
20. I will remove the northerner far from you,and I will banish him to a dry and desolate land,those in front to the eastern sea,and those in back to the western sea,and his stink will rise,and his stench will rise,for he has done great things.
21. Do not be afraid, land;exult and rejoice,for the Lord has done great things!
22. Do not be afraid, beasts of the field,because the wild pastures flourish,because the tree bears its fruit;the fig tree and the vine yield their abundance.
23. And children of Zion, exultand rejoice in the Lord your God,because He has given to youthe early rain for vindication.He showers down rains for you,the early rain and the latter rain, as before.
24. Then the threshing floors will be filled with grain,and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
25. And I will compensate you for the years the locusts have eaten—the larval locust, the hopper locust,and the fledging locust—My great army which I sent against you.
26. You will eat abundantly and be satisfied,and you will praise the name of the Lord your God,who has worked wonders for you;and My people will never again be shamed.
27. Then you will know that I am in the midst of Israel,that I am the Lord your God,and that there is no other.And My people will never again be shamed.
28. And it will be that, afterwards,I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;then your sons and your daughters will prophesy,your old men will dream dreams,and your young men will see visions.
29. Even on the menservants and maidservantsin those days I will pour out My Spirit.
30. Then I will work wonders in the heavensand the earth—blood and fire and columns of smoke.
31. The sun will be turned to darkness,and the moon to blood,before the great and awe-inspiring day of the Lord comes.
32. And it will be that everyonewho calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalemthere will be deliverance,as the Lord has said,and among the survivorswhom the Lord calls.