The Lord’s answer

18 Then the Lord was jealous for his land
    and took pity on his people.

19 The Lord replied[a] to them:

‘I am sending you grain, new wine and olive oil,
    enough to satisfy you fully;
never again will I make you
    an object of scorn to the nations.

20 ‘I will drive the northern horde far from you,
    pushing it into a parched and barren land;
its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea
    and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea.
And its stench will go up;
    its smell will rise.’

Surely he has done great things!

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:19 Or Lord will be jealous . . . / and take pity . . . / 19 The Lord will reply