Joel 2

1 Blowe the trumpet in Zion, and shoute in mine holy mountaine: let all the inhabitants of the lande tremble: for the day of the Lord is come: for it is at hand.

to blow trumpet in/on/with Zion and to shout in/on/with mountain: mount holiness my to tremble all to dwell [the] land: country/planet for to come (in): come day LORD for near

2 A day of darkenesse, and of blacknesse, a day of cloudes, and obscuritie, as the morning spred vpon the mountaines, so is there a great people, and a mighty: there was none like it from the beginning, neither shalbe any more after it, vnto the yeeres of many generations.

day darkness and darkness day cloud and cloud like/as dawn to spread upon [the] mountain: mount people many and mighty like him not to be from [the] forever: antiquity and after him not to add: again till year generation and generation

3 A fire deuoureth before him, and behinde him a flame burneth vp: the land is as the garden of Eden before him, and behinde him a desolate wildernesse, so that nothing shall escape him.

to/for face: before his to eat fire and after him to kindle flame like/as garden Eden [the] land: country/planet to/for face: before his and after him wilderness devastation and also survivor not to be to/for him

4 The beholding of him is like the sight of horses, and like the horsemen, so shall they runne.

like/as appearance horse appearance his and like/as horse so to run: run [emph?]

5 Like the noyse of charrets in the toppes of the mountaines shall they leape, like the noyse of a flame of fire that deuoureth the stubble, and as a mightie people prepared to the battel.

like/as voice: sound chariot upon head: top [the] mountain: mount to skip about [emph?] like/as voice: sound flame fire to eat stubble like/as people: soldiers mighty to arrange battle

6 Before his face shall the people tremble: all faces shall gather blackenesse.

from face: before his to twist: writh in pain people all face to gather pale

7 They shall runne like strong men, and goe vp to the wall like men of warre, and euery man shall goe forward in his wayes, and they shall not stay in their paths.

like/as mighty man to run: run [emph?] like/as human battle to ascend: rise wall and man: anyone in/on/with way: journey his to go: walk [emph?] and not to lend [emph?] way their

8 Neither shall one thrust another, but euery one shall walke in his path: and when they fall vpon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

and man: anyone brother: compatriot his not to crowd [emph?] great man in/on/with highway his to go: walk [emph?] and about/through/for [the] missile to fall: fall not to cut off: to end

9 They shall runne to and from in the citie: they shall runne vpon the wall: they shall clime vp vpon the houses, and enter in at ye windowes like ye thiefe.

in/on/with city to rush in/on/with wall to run: run [emph?] in/on/with house: home to ascend: rise about/through/for [the] window to come (in): come like/as thief

10 The earth shall tremble before him, ye heauens shall shake, the sunne and the moone shalbe darke, and the starres shall withdraw their shining,

to/for face: before his to tremble land: country/planet to shake heaven sun and moon be dark and star to gather brightness their

11 And the Lord shall vtter his voyce before his hoste: for his hoste is very great: for he is strog that doeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible, and who can abide it?

and LORD to give: cry out voice his to/for face: before strength: soldiers his for many much camp his for mighty to make: do word his for great: large day LORD and to fear: revere much and who? to sustain him

12 Therefore also now the Lord sayth, Turne you vnto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning,

and also now utterance LORD to return: return till me in/on/with all heart your and in/on/with fast and in/on/with weeping and in/on/with mourning

13 And rent your heart, and not your clothes: and turne vnto the Lord your God, for he is gratious, and mercifull, slowe to anger, and of great kindnes, and repenteth him of the euill.

and to tear heart your and not garment your and to return: return to(wards) LORD God your for gracious and compassionate he/she/it slow face: anger and many kindness and to be sorry: relent upon [the] distress: harm

14 Who knoweth, is he wil returne and repent and leaue a blessing behinde him, euen a meate offring, and a drinke offring vnto ye Lord your God?

who? to know to return: repent and to be sorry: relent and to remain after him blessing offering and drink offering to/for LORD God your

15 Blowe the trumpet in Zion, sanctifie a fast, call a solemne assembly.

to blow trumpet in/on/with Zion to consecrate: consecate fast to call: call to assembly

16 Gather the people: sanctifie the congregation, gather the elders: assemble the children, and those that sucke the breastes: let the bridegrome go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her bride chamber.

to gather people to consecrate: consecate assembly to gather old: elder to gather infant and to suckle breast to come out: come son-in-law from chamber his and daughter-in-law: bride from canopy her

17 Let the Priestes, the ministers of the Lord weepe betweene the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and giue not thine heritage into reproche that the heathen should rule ouer them. Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

between [the] Portico and to/for altar to weep [the] priest to minister LORD and to say to pity [emph?] LORD upon people your and not to give: make inheritance your to/for reproach to/for to rule in/on/with them nation to/for what? to say in/on/with people where? God their

18 Then will the Lord be ielous ouer his land, and spare his people.

and be jealous LORD to/for land: country/planet his and to spare upon people his

19 Yea, the Lord wil answere and say vnto his people, Beholde, I will send you corne, and wine, and oyle, and you shalbe satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproche among the heathen,

and to answer LORD and to say to/for people his look! I to send: depart to/for you [obj] [the] grain and [the] new wine and [the] oil and to satisfy with him and not to give: make [obj] you still reproach in/on/with nation

20 But I will remooue farre off from you the Northren armie, and I will driue him into a land, barren and desolate with his face toward the East sea, and his end to the vtmost sea, and his stinke shall come vp, and his corruption shall ascend, because he hath exalted himselfe to do this.

and [obj] [the] northern to remove from upon you and to banish him to(wards) land: country/planet dryness and devastation [obj] face: before his to(wards) [the] sea [the] eastern and end his to(wards) [the] sea [the] last and to ascend: rise stench his and to ascend: rise stench his for to magnify to/for to make: do

21 Feare not, O land, but be glad, and reioyce: for the Lord wil do great things.

not to fear land: soil to rejoice and to rejoice for to magnify LORD to/for to make: do

22 Be not afrayde, ye beastes of the fielde: for the pastures of the wildernesse are greene: for the tree beareth her fruite: the figge tree and the vine do giue their force.

not to fear animal field for to sprout habitation wilderness for tree to lift: bear fruit his fig and vine to give: give strength: rich their

23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and reioyce in the Lord your God: for he hath giuen you the rayne of righteousnes, he wil cause to come downe for you the rayne, euen the first raine, and the latter raine in the first moneth.

and son: child Zion to rejoice and to rejoice in/on/with LORD God your for to give: give to/for you [obj] [the] rain/teacher to/for righteousness and to go down to/for you rain rain/teacher and spring rain in/on/with first: previous

24 And the barnes shalbe full of wheate, and the presses shall abound with wine and oyle.

and to fill [the] threshing floor grain and to overflow [the] wine new wine and oil

25 And I will render you the yeeres that the grashopper hath eaten, the canker worme and the caterpiller and the palmer worme, my great hoste which I sent among you.

and to complete to/for you [obj] [the] year which to eat [the] locust [the] locust and [the] locust and [the] locust strength: soldiers my [the] great: large which to send: depart in/on/with you

26 So you shall eate and be satisfied and praise the Name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt marueilously with you: and my people shall neuer be ashamed.

and to eat to eat and to satisfy and to boast: praise [obj] name LORD God your which to make: do with you to/for to wonder and not be ashamed people my to/for forever: any time

27 Ye shall also know, that I am in the middes of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God and none other, and my people shall neuer be ashamed.

and to know for in/on/with entrails: among Israel I and I LORD God your and nothing still and not be ashamed people my to/for forever: any time

28 And afterward will I powre out my Spirit vpon all flesh: and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie: your olde men shall dreame dreames, and your yong men shall see visions,

and to be after so to pour: pour [obj] spirit my upon all flesh and to prophesy son: descendant/people your and daughter your old your dream to dream [emph?] youth your vision to see: see

29 And also vpon the seruants, and vpon the maydes in those dayes wil I powre my Spirit.

and also upon [the] servant/slave and upon [the] maidservant in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) to pour: pour [obj] spirit my

30 And I will shewe wonders in the heauens and in the earth: blood and fire, and pillars of smoke.

and to give: make wonder in/on/with heaven and in/on/with land: country/planet blood and fire and column smoke

31 The sunne shalbe turned into darkenesse, and the moone into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.

[the] sun to overturn to/for darkness and [the] moon to/for blood to/for face: before to come (in): come day LORD [the] great: large and [the] to fear

32 But whosoeuer shall call on the Name of the Lord, shalbe saued: for in mount Zion, and in Ierusale shalbe deliuerance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant, whom the Lord shall call.

and to be all which to call: call to in/on/with name LORD to escape for in/on/with mountain: mount Zion and in/on/with Jerusalem to be survivor like/as as which to say LORD and in/on/with survivor which LORD to call: call to