Joel 2

1 Sound the trumpet in Sion, make a proclamation in my holy mountain, and let all the inhabitants of the land be confounded: for the day of the Lord is near;

Ifi ʻae meʻalea ʻi Saione, pea fanongonongo ʻae ilifia ʻi hoku moʻunga tapu: ke tetetete ʻae kakai kotoa pē ʻoe fonua, koeʻuhi ʻoku hoko ʻae ʻaho ʻo Sihova, he ʻoku ofi ia;

2 for a day of darkness and gloominess is near, a day of cloud and mist: a numerous and strong people shall be spread upon the mountains as the morning; there has not been from the beginning one like it, and after it there shall not be again even to the years of many generations.

Ko e ʻaho ʻoe fakapoʻuli, pea mo e fakapoʻupoʻuli, ko e ʻaho ʻaoʻaofia, pea mo e poʻuli matolu: hangē ko e pongipongi kuo mafola ʻi he funga moʻunga, ʻoku [hau ]pehē ʻae kakai lahi mo mālohi; naʻe ʻikai pehē ʻi muʻa, pea ʻe ʻikai toe hangē ko ia ʻamui, ʻo aʻu ki he ngaahi taʻu ʻoe ngaahi toʻutangata lahi.

3 Before them is a consuming fire, and behind them is a flame kindled: the land before them is as a paradise of delight, and behind them a desolate plain: and there shall none of them escape.

‌ʻOku kai ʻe he afi ʻi honau ʻao; pea ʻoku vela ʻae ulo afi ʻi honau tuʻa: ko e fonua ʻoku hangē ko e ngoue ko Iteni ʻi honau ʻao, pea ki mui ʻiate kinautolu ʻoku hangē ko e toafa kuo lala; ʻio, pea ʻe ʻikai hao ha meʻa meiate kinautolu.

4 Their appearance is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they pursue.

‌ʻOku nau hā mai hangē ko e hā mai ʻae fanga hoosi; pea hangē ko e kau tangata heka hoosi, ʻe pehē ʻenau lele.

5 As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.

Hangē ko e ʻaulolongo ʻoe ngaahi saliote ʻi he funga moʻunga, ʻe pehē ʻenau hopohopo, ʻo hangē ko e mumuhu ʻoe ulo afi ʻi heʻene kai ʻae mohuku mōmoa, ʻo hangē ko e kakai mālohi kuo fakataha ki he tau.

6 Before them shall the people be crushed: every face [shall be] as the blackness of a cauldron.

‌ʻE mamahi lahi ʻae kakai ʻi honau ʻao: ʻe peko ʻae mata kotoa pē.

7 As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his [right] path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks:

Te nau lele hangē ko e kau tangata mālohi; te nau kaka ʻi he ʻā, hangē ko e kau tangata tau; pea te nau laka taki taha ʻi hono hala, ka ʻe ʻikai ha taha te ne veuki ʻae fakaʻotu:

8 and not one shall stand aloof from his brother: they shall go on weighed down with their arms, and they fall upon their weapons, yet shall they in no wise be destroyed.

Pea ʻe ʻikai te nau feteketekeʻi ʻae taha ki he taha; ka te nau taki taha ʻalu ʻi hono hala: pea ka nau ka tō ki he heletā, ʻe ʻikai te nau lavea.

9 They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves.

Te nau lele fano pe ʻi he kolo; te nau lele ʻi he fukahi ʻā, te nau kaka ki he tuʻa fale; te nau hū ʻi he ngaahi matapā sioʻata, hangē ko e kaihaʻa.

10 Before them the earth shall be confounded, and the sky shall be shaken: the sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.

‌ʻE tetetete ʻae fonua ʻi honau ʻao; pea ʻe ngalulululu ʻae langi: ʻe poʻuli ʻae laʻā mo e māhina, pea ʻe taʻofi ʻenau ulo ʻe he ngaahi fetuʻu:

11 And the Lord shall utter his voice before his host: for his camp is very great: for the execution of his words is mighty: for the day of the Lord is great, very glorious, and who shall be able to [resist] it?

Pea ʻe fakaongo hono leʻo ʻe Sihova ki heʻene kautau: he ʻoku lahi ʻae fakataha ʻo ʻene kautau: pea ʻoku mālohi ia ʻoku fai ki heʻene folofola: koeʻuhi ko e ʻaho ʻo Sihova ʻoku lahi mo fakamanavahē; pea ko hai te ne faʻa tuʻu ai?

12 Now therefore, says the Lord your God, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation:

‌ʻOku pehē ʻe Sihova, “Pea ko eni foki, mou tafoki kiate au ʻaki homou loto kotoa, pea ʻi he ʻaukai, pea ʻi he tangi, mo e tangilāulau:”

13 and rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy, and repents of evils.

Pea mou haehae homou loto, kae ʻikai ko homou kofu pe, pea tafoki kia Sihova, ko homou ʻOtua: he ʻoku ne angalelei mo ʻaloʻofa, ʻo tuotuai ki he houhau, pea ʻoku ne angaʻofa lahi, pea ʻoku ne fakatomala ʻi he kovi.

14 Who knows if he will return, and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meat-offering and a drink-offering to the Lord your God?

‌ʻE ʻilo ʻe hai? Pe te ne tafoki mo fakatomala, pea tuku mai ki mui ha tāpuaki ʻiate ia; ʻio, ha feilaulau meʻakai, pea mo e feilaulau meʻainu kia Sihova ko homou ʻOtua?

15 Sound the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a [solemn] service:

Ifi ʻae meʻalea ʻi Saione, tuʻutuʻuni ha ʻaukai, ui ʻae fakataha mamafa:

16 gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the infants at the breast: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

Tānaki ʻae kakai, fakatapui ʻae fakataha, fakakātoa mai ʻae kau mātuʻa, tānaki ʻae fānau, pea mo kinautolu ʻoku kei huhu: ke ʻalu ʻae tangata taʻane mei hono fale teuteu, pea mo e taʻahine mei hono loki.

17 Between the porch and the altar let the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare your people, O Lord, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say amongst the heathen, Where is their God?

Tuku ke tangi ʻae kau taulaʻeiki, ʻae kau faifekau ʻa Sihova, ʻi he vahaʻa ʻoe fale hala mo e feilaulauʻanga, pea ke nau lea pehē, “ʻE Sihova, fakamoʻui hoʻo kakai, pea ʻoua naʻa ke tuku ho tofiʻa ki he manuki, ke puleʻi ʻakinautolu ʻe he hiteni: koeʻumaʻā ʻenau pehē ʻi he lotolotonga ʻo hoʻo kakai, ‘ʻOku ʻi fē honau ʻOtua?’”

18 But the Lord was jealous of his land, and spared his people.

Pea ʻe toki fuaʻa ʻa Sihova ki hono fonua, pea ʻofa mamahi ki hono kakai.

19 And the Lord answered and said to his people, Behold, I [will] send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with them: and I will no longer make you a reproach amongst the Gentiles.

‌ʻIo, ko Sihova te ne tali, pea pehē ki hono kakai, “Vakai, te u ʻatu kiate kimoutolu ʻae koane, mo e uaine, mo e lolo, pea te mou mākona ai: pea ʻe ʻikai te u toe tuku ʻakimoutolu ke manukiʻi ʻe he hiteni:

20 And I will chase away from you the northern [adversary], and will drive him away into a dry land, and I will sink his face in the former sea, and his back parts in the latter sea, and his ill savour shall come up, and his stink come up, because he has wrought great things.

Ka te u ʻave ke mamaʻo ʻiate kimoutolu ʻae tau mei he tokelau, pea te u kapusi ʻakinautolu ki ha fonua kākā mo lala, ʻoku hanga hono mata ki he tahi hahake, pea mo hono tuʻa ki he tahi mamaʻo atu ʻaupito, pea ʻe ʻalu hake hono namukū, pea ʻe ʻalu hake hono ʻeho ʻo ia,” Koeʻuhi kuo ne fai ʻae ngaahi meʻa lahi.

21 Be of good courage, O land; rejoice and be glad: for the Lord has done great things.

“ʻE fonua, ʻoua naʻa manavahē; fiefia pea nekeneka: koeʻuhi ʻe fai ʻe Sihova ʻae meʻa lahi.

22 Be of good courage, you beasts of the plain, for the plains of the wilderness have budded, for the trees have borne their fruit, the fig tree and the vine have yielded their strength.

‌ʻOua naʻa manavahē, ʻe fanga manu ʻoe vao! He ʻoku tupu ʻae mohuku ʻi he toafa, pea ʻoku fua ʻae ʻakau, ko e ʻakau ko e fiki mo e vaine, ʻoku tuku mai hona mālohi.

23 Rejoice then and be glad, you children of Sion, in the Lord your God: for he has given you food fully, and he will rain on you the early and the latter rain, as before.

“Pea mou fiemālie, ʻe fānau ʻa Saione, pea fiefia ʻia Sihova, ko homou ʻOtua: koeʻuhi kuo ne foaki kiate kimoutolu fakalelelelei ʻae ʻuha muʻa, pea te ne tuku ke tō kiate kimoutolu ʻae ʻuha, ko e ʻuha muʻa, mo e ʻuha mui, ʻi he ʻuluaki māhina.

24 And the floors shall be filled with corn, and the presses shall overflow with wine and oil.

Pea ʻe fonu ʻi he uite ʻae ngaahi hahaʻanga, pea ʻe pito mahuohua ʻae ngaahi tataʻoʻanga ʻi he uaine mo e lolo.

25 And I will recompense you for the years which the locust, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm have eaten, [even] my great army, which I sent against you.

Pea te u toe ʻomi kiate kimoutolu ʻae ngaahi taʻu ne kai ʻe he heʻe mo e ʻunufe maumau, mo e ʻunufe, mo e ʻunufe fulufulu, ko ʻeku kau tau lahi naʻaku fekau kiate kimoutolu.

26 And you shall eat abundantly, and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of the Lord your God [for the things] which he has wrought wonderfully with you: and my people shall not be ashamed for ever.

Pea te mou kai ʻi he mahu, pea te mou mākona ai, pea fakamālō ki he huafa ʻo Sihova ko homou ʻOtua, ʻaia kuo ne fai fakaofo kiate kimoutolu: pea ʻe ʻikai toe mā ʻa hoku kakai ʻo lauikuonga.

27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and [that] I am the Lord your God, and [that] there is none else beside me; and my people shall no more be ashamed for ever.

Pea te mou ʻilo ʻoku ou ʻi he haʻohaʻonga ʻo ʻIsileli, pea ko Sihova au ko homou ʻOtua, kae ʻikai ha taha kehe: pea ʻe ʻikai toe mā ʻa hoku kakai ʻo lauikuonga.

28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

“Pea ʻe hoko ʻamui, te u huaʻi hoku Laumālie ki he kakai kotoa pē; pea ʻe kikite homou ngaahi foha mo homou ngaahi ʻofefine, pea ʻe misi ʻe hoʻo kau mātuʻa ʻae ngaahi misi, pea ʻe mamata ʻae ngaahi meʻa hā mai ʻe hoʻo kau talavou:

29 And on my servants and on [my] handmaids in those days will I pour out of my Spirit.

Pea ki he kau tamaioʻeiki mo e kau kaunanga, te u huaʻi foki hoku Laumālie ʻi he ngaahi ʻaho ko ia.

30 And I will show wonders in heaven, and upon the earth, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.

Pea te u fakahā ʻae ngaahi meʻa fakaofo ʻi he langi, pea ʻi māmani, ko e toto, mo e afi, mo e ʻahu ʻoe afi.

31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord come.

Pea ʻe liliu ʻae laʻā ʻo poʻuli, mo e māhina ke toto ʻi he teʻeki hoko ʻae ʻaho lahi, pea fakamanavahē ʻo Sihova.

32 And it shall come to pass [that] whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved: for in mount Sion and in Jerusalem shall the saved one be as the Lord has said, and they that have glad tidings preached to them, whom the Lord has called.

Pea ʻe pehē, ko ia ʻe ui ki he huafa ʻo Sihova ʻe fakamoʻui ia: koeʻuhi ʻe ai ʻae fakamoʻui ʻi he moʻunga ko Saione, pea ʻi Selūsalema, ʻo hangē ko e folofola ʻa Sihova, pea ʻi he toenga ʻe uiuiʻi ʻe Sihova.”