Joel 2 - 3
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j Blow a trumpet in k Zion;
sound an alarm on k my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for l the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,
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m a day of darkness and gloom,
m a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
n a great and powerful people;
o their like has never been before,
nor will be again after them
through the years of all generations.
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p Fire devours before them,
and behind them a flame burns.
The land is like q the garden of Eden before them,
but r behind them a desolate wilderness,
and nothing escapes them.
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s Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,
and like war horses they run.
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t As with the rumbling of chariots,
they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of u a flame of fire
devouring the stubble,
n like a powerful army
drawn up for battle.
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Before them peoples are in anguish;
v all faces grow pale.
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Like warriors they charge;
like soldiers they scale the wall.
They march each on his way;
they do not swerve from their paths.
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They do not jostle one another;
w each marches in his path;
they burst through the weapons
and are not halted.
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x They leap upon the city,
they run upon the walls,
y they climb up into the houses,
y they enter through the windows z like a thief.
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a The earth quakes before them;
the heavens tremble.
b The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
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c The Lord utters his voice
before d his army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
e he who executes his word is powerful.
f For the day of the Lord is g great and very awesome;
h who can endure it?
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"Yet even now," declares the Lord,
i "return to me with all your heart,
j with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
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and k rend your hearts and not l your garments."
Return to the Lord your God,
m for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
n and he relents over disaster.
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o Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
and p leave a blessing behind him,
q a grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord your God?
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r Blow the trumpet in Zion;
s consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
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gather the people.
t Consecrate the congregation;
assemble the elders;
u gather the children,
even nursing infants.
v Let the bridegroom leave his room,
and the bride her chamber.
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w Between the x vestibule and the y altar
z let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep
and say, "Spare your people, O Lord,
and make not your heritage a reproach,
a byword among the nations.
a Why should they say among the peoples,
'Where is their God?'"
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b Then the Lord became jealous for his land
c and had pity on his people.
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The Lord answered and said to his people,
"Behold, d I am sending to you
grain, wine, and oil,
d and you will be satisfied;
and I will no more make you
a reproach among the nations.
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"I will remove the northerner far from you,
and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard into e the eastern sea,
and his rear guard into f the western sea;
g the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
for he has done great things.
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"Fear not, O land;
be glad and rejoice,
for h the Lord has done great things!
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Fear not, i you beasts of the field,
for j the pastures of the wilderness are green;
k the tree bears its fruit;
the fig tree and k vine give their full yield.
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l "Be glad, O children of Zion,
and l rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given m the early rain for your vindication;
he has poured down for you abundant rain,
m the early and n the latter rain, as before.
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"The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
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I will restore to you the years
that o the swarming locust has eaten,
o the hopper, o the destroyer, and o the cutter,
p my great army, which I sent among you.
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q "You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
and praise the name of the Lord your God,
who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people r shall never again be put to shame.
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s You shall know that I am t in the midst of Israel,
and that u I am the Lord your God v and there is none else.
And my people r shall never again be put to shame.
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w "And it shall come to pass afterward,
that x I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
y your sons and z your daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams,
and your young men shall see visions.
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a Even on the male and female servants
in those days I will pour out my Spirit.
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"And I will show b wonders in the heavens and b on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
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c The sun shall be turned to darkness, d and the moon to blood, e before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
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And it shall come to pass that f everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. g For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among h the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.
Joel 3
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"For behold, i in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
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j I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And k I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
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and l have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
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"What are you to me, m O Tyre and Sidon, and all n the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, o I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
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For p you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
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You have sold q the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
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Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and o I will return your payment on your own head.
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I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the r Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken."
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Proclaim this among the nations:
s Consecrate for war;
stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
let them come up.
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t Beat your plowshares into swords,
and t your pruning hooks into spears;
let the weak say, "I am a warrior."
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u Hasten and come,
all you surrounding nations,
and gather yourselves there.
v Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
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Let the nations stir themselves up
and come up to w the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
x for there I will sit to judge
all the surrounding nations.
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y Put in the sickle,
z for the harvest is ripe.
a Go in, tread,
a for the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
for their evil is great.
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Multitudes, multitudes,
in the valley of decision!
For b the day of the Lord is near
in the valley of decision.
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c The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
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d The Lord roars from Zion,
and d utters his voice from Jerusalem,
e and the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is f a refuge to his people,
a stronghold to the people of Israel.
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g "So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
h who dwells in Zion, i my holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
and j strangers shall never again pass through it.
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"And in that day
k the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk,
and l all the streambeds of Judah
shall flow with water;
m and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
and water the Valley of n Shittim.
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o "Egypt shall become a desolation
and p Edom a desolate wilderness,
q for the violence done to the people of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
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r But Judah shall be inhabited forever,
and Jerusalem to all generations.
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s I will avenge their blood,
blood I have not avenged,
h for the Lord dwells in Zion."
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Joel 2:15
Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly.
Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.
Hosea 5:8
Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; we follow you, O Benjamin!
Amos 3:6
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?
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Joel 3:17
So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
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Joel 3:17
So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
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Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
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Amos 5:18
Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord ? It is darkness, and not light.
Amos 5:20
Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?
Zephaniah 1:15
A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
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Amos 5:18
Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord ? It is darkness, and not light.
Amos 5:20
Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?
Zephaniah 1:15
A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
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Joel 1:6
For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
Joel 2:11
The Lord utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the Lord is great and very awesome; who can endure it?
Joel 2:25
I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.
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Joel 1:2
Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
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Joel 1:19 - 20
To you, O Lord, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.
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Genesis 2:8 - 9
And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Isaiah 51:3
For the Lord comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord ; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.
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Zechariah 7:14
"and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
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Revelation 9:7
In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces.
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Revelation 9:9
They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.
Nahum 3:2
The crack of the whip, and rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
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Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 47:14
Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!
Obadiah 1:18
The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.
Nahum 1:10
For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
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Joel 2:2
A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
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Nahum 2:10
Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!
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Proverbs 30:27
The locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank.
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Isaiah 33:4
And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.
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Jeremiah 9:21
For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.
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Jeremiah 9:21
For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.
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John 10:1
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.
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Joel 3:16
The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the Lord is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.
Psalms 18:7
Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.
Amos 8:8
Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?
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Joel 3:15
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.
Ezekiel 32:7
When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
Matthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Revelation 9:2
He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.
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Joel 3:16
The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the Lord is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
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Joel 2:25
I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.
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Revelation 18:8
For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.
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Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
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Joel 2:31
The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
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Malachi 3:2
But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.
Numbers 24:23
And he took up his discourse and said, "Alas, who shall live when God does this?
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Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice.
1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
Jeremiah 4:1
If you return, O Israel, declares the Lord, to me you should return. If you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waver.
Hosea 12:6
"So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
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1 Samuel 7:6
So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord and fasted on that day and said there, "We have sinned against the Lord." And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.
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Psalms 34:18
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
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Genesis 37:29
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes
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Exodus 34:6
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Psalms 86:5
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
Psalms 86:15
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Jonah 4:2
And he prayed to the Lord and said, "O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.
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Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Ezekiel 24:14
I am the Lord. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord God.
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Jonah 3:9
Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.
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Haggai 2:19
Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will bless you.
Malachi 3:10
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
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Joel 1:9
The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord.
Joel 1:13
Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
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Joel 2:1
Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near.
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Joel 1:14
Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.
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Joshua 3:5
Then Joshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
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2 Chronicles 20:13
Meanwhile all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
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Deuteronomy 24:5
When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.
Ecclesiastes 3:5
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
Zechariah 12:12 - 14
The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.
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1 Kings 6:3
The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.
2 Chronicles 3:4
The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and its height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.
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2 Chronicles 4:1
He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
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Joel 1:9
The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord.
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Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?
Psalms 79:10
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Psalms 115:2
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?
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Zechariah 1:14
So the angel who talked with me said to me, 'Cry out, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.
Zechariah 8:2
Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.
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Psalms 103:13
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
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Joel 1:10
The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes.
Psalms 4:7
You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.
Malachi 3:10 - 12
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
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Joel 1:10
The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes.
Psalms 4:7
You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.
Malachi 3:10 - 12
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
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Ezekiel 47:18
On the east side, the boundary shall run between Hauran and Damascus; along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar. This shall be the east side.
Zechariah 14:8
On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.
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Zechariah 14:8
On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.
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Isaiah 34:3
Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.
Amos 4:10
I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and carried away your horses, and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
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Psalms 126:2 - 3
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The Lord has done great things for them.
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Joel 1:18
How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer.
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Joel 1:19
To you, O Lord, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.
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Zechariah 8:12
For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
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Zechariah 8:12
For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
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Psalms 100:1 - 2
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
Habakkuk 3:18
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord ; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
Zechariah 10:7
Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord.
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Psalms 100:1 - 2
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
Habakkuk 3:18
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord ; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
Zechariah 10:7
Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 11:14
He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.
Jeremiah 5:24
They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.
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Deuteronomy 11:14
He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.
Jeremiah 5:24
They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.
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Hosea 6:3
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord ; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.
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Joel 1:4
What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
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Joel 1:4
What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
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Joel 1:4
What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
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Joel 1:4
What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
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Joel 2:11
The Lord utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the Lord is great and very awesome; who can endure it?
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Leviticus 25:19
The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and dwell in it securely.
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Isaiah 49:23
Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord ; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.
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Joel 3:17
So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
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Hosea 11:9
I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
Ezekiel 37:26
I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
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Exodus 20:2
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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Isaiah 44:8
Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.
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Joel 2:26
You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
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Joel 2:28 - 32
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
Acts 2:17 - 21
'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
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Isaiah 32:15
Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
Ezekiel 39:29
And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.
Zechariah 12:10
And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
John 7:39
Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
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Acts 2:39
For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.
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Acts 21:9
He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.
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1 Corinthians 12:13
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - Jews or Greeks, slaves or free - and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
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Matthew 24:30
Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Luke 21:11
There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
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Matthew 24:30
Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Luke 21:11
There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
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Joel 2:10
The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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Revelation 6:12
When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood.
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Malachi 4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
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Romans 10:13
For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
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Isaiah 46:13
I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off, and my salvation will not delay; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.
Isaiah 59:20
And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression," declares the Lord.
Obadiah 1:17
But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
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Jeremiah 31:7
For thus says the Lord : "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
Micah 4:7
And the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Zechariah 8:12
For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
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Jeremiah 30:3
For behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it.
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Zephaniah 3:8
Therefore wait for me," declares the Lord, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Zechariah 14:2 - 4
For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
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Isaiah 66:16
For by fire will the Lord enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.
Jeremiah 25:31
The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the Lord has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the Lord.
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Obadiah 1:11
On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
Nahum 3:10
Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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Isaiah 23:1 - 2
The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.
Jeremiah 47:4
Because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the Lord is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
Amos 1:9
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
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Ezekiel 25:15 - 16
Thus says the Lord God : Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity.
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Obadiah 1:15
For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
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2 Chronicles 21:16 - 17
And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians.
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Joel 3:3
And have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
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Joel 3:4
What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
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1 Kings 10:1
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.
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Micah 3:5
Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.
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Isaiah 2:4
He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
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Isaiah 2:4
He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
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Isaiah 54:15
If anyone stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.
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Zechariah 14:5
And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
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Joel 3:2
I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land.
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Psalms 96:13
Before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to ...
Psalms 98:9
Before the Lord, for he comes to judge the eart...
Psalms 110:6
He will execute judgment among the nations, fil...
Isaiah 2:4
He shall judge between the nations, and shall d...
Isaiah 3:13
The Lord has taken his place to contend; he sta...
Micah 4:3
He shall judge between many peoples, and shall ...
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Revelation 14:15
And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.
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Jeremiah 51:33
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Isr...
Hosea 6:11
For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, ...
Matthew 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest, and a...
Matthew 13:39
And the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The ...
Mark 4:29
But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in ...
John 4:35
Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, the...
Revelation 14:15
And another angel came out of the temple, calli...
Revelation 14:18
And another angel came out from the altar, the ...
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Revelation 14:20
And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
Isaiah 63:2 - 3
Why is your apparel red, and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?
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Revelation 14:20
And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
Isaiah 63:2 - 3
Why is your apparel red, and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?
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Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
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Joel 2:10
The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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Joel 2:11
The Lord utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the Lord is great and very awesome; who can endure it?
Amos 1:2
And he said: "The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.
Jeremiah 25:30
You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: "'The Lord will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
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Joel 2:11
The Lord utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the Lord is great and very awesome; who can endure it?
Amos 1:2
And he said: "The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.
Jeremiah 25:30
You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: "'The Lord will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
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Joel 2:10
The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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Isaiah 4:6
There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.
Isaiah 25:4
For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.
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Joel 2:27
You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Ezekiel 6:7
And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
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Joel 3:21
I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the Lord dwells in Zion.
Ezekiel 43:7
And he said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places.
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Joel 2:1
Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near.
Psalms 48:1
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain.
Isaiah 65:11
But you who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny.
Jeremiah 31:23
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I restore their fortunes: "'The Lord bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O holy hill!
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Isaiah 52:1
Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Nahum 1:15
Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.
Zechariah 14:21
And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.
Revelation 21:27
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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Jeremiah 31:12
They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall languish no more.
Amos 9:13
Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord, "when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.
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Isaiah 30:25
And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
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Ezekiel 47:1
Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar.
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Numbers 25:1
While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.
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Isaiah 19:1 - 17
An oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.
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Isaiah 34:5
For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
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Obadiah 1:10
Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
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Psalms 125:1 - 2
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
Ezekiel 37:25
They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.
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Isaiah 4:4
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.
Ezekiel 36:25
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
Ezekiel 36:29
And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you.
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Joel 3:17
So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
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