1 Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;2 For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.4 Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.5 Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.6 At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.7 They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.8 No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.9 They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.10 The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:11 And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?12 But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:13 Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.14 May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?15 Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:16 Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.17 Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?18 Then the Lord had a care for the honour of his land and had pity on his people.19 And the Lord made answer and said to his people, See, I will send you grain and wine and oil in full measure: and I will no longer let you be shamed among the nations:20 I will send the one from the north far away from you, driving him into a dry and waste land, with his front to the sea of the east and his back to the sea of the west, and the smell of him will go up, even his evil smell will go up.21 Have no fear, O land; be glad with great joy; for the Lord has done great things.22 Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.23 Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.24 And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.25 I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.26 You will have food in full measure, and give praise to the name of the Lord your God, who has done wonders for you:27 And you will be certain that I am in Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other: and my people will never be shamed.

1 [Canite tuba in Sion,ululate in monte sancto meo,conturbentur omnes habitatores terr :quia venit dies Domini, quia prope est.2 Dies tenebrarum et caliginis,dies nubis et turbinis ;quasi mane expansum super montespopulus multus et fortis :similis ei non fuit a principio,et post eum non eritusque in annos generationis et generationis.3 Ante faciem ejus ignis vorans,et post eum exurens flamma.Quasi hortus voluptatis terra coram eo,et post eum solitudo deserti,neque est qui effugiat eum.4 Quasi aspectus equorum, aspectus eorum ;et quasi equites, sic current.5 Sicut sonitus quadrigarum super capita montium exilient,sicut sonitus flamm ignis devorantis stipulam,velut populus fortis prparatus ad prlium.6 A facie ejus cruciabuntur populi ;omnes vultus redigentur in ollam.7 Sicut fortes current ;quasi viri bellatores ascendent murum :viri in viis suis gradientur,et non declinabunt a semitis suis.8 Unusquisque fratrem suum non coarctabit,singuli in calle suo ambulabunt ;sed et per fenestras cadent, et non demolientur.9 Urbem ingredientur, in muro current,domos conscendent, per fenestras intrabunt quasi fur.10 A facie ejus contremuit terra,moti sunt cli,sol et luna obtenebrati sunt,et stell retraxerunt splendorem suum.11 Et Dominus dedit vocem suam ante faciem exercitus sui,quia multa sunt nimis castra ejus,quia fortia et facientia verbum ejus :magnus enim dies Domini, et terribilis valde,et quis sustinebit eum ?12 Nunc ergo, dicit Dominus,convertimini ad me in toto corde vestro,in jejunio, et in fletu, et in planctu.13 Et scindite corda vestra, et non vestimenta vestra ;et convertimini ad Dominum Deum vestrum,quia benignus et misericors est,patiens et mult misericordi,et prstabilis super malitia.14 Quis scit si convertatur, et ignoscat,et relinquat post se benedictionem, sacrificium et libamen Domino Deo vestro ?15 Canite tuba in Sion,sanctificate jejunium, vocate ctum :16 congregate populum, sanctificate ecclesiam,coadunate senes, congregate parvulos, et sugentes ubera ;egrediatur sponsus de cubili suo,et sponsa de thalamo suo.17 Inter vestibulum et altare plorabunt sacerdotes, ministri Domini,et dicent : Parce, Domine, parce populo tuo ;et ne des hreditatem tuam in opprobrium,ut dominentur eis nationes.Quare dicunt in populis : Ubi est Deus eorum ?]18 [Zelatus est Dominus terram suam,et pepercit populo suo.19 Et respondit Dominus, et dixit populo suo :Ecce ego mittam vobis frumentum, et vinum, et oleum,et replebimini eis ;et non dabo vos ultra opprobrium in gentibus.20 Et eum qui ab aquilone est procul faciam a vobis,et expellam eum in terram inviam et desertam :faciem ejus contra mare orientale,et extremum ejus ad mare novissimum :et ascendet ftor ejus,et ascendet putredo ejus,quia superbe egit.21 Noli timere, terra :exsulta, et ltare,quoniam magnificavit Dominus ut faceret.22 Nolite timere, animalia regionis,quia germinaverunt speciosa deserti ;quia lignum attulit fructum suum,ficus et vinea dederunt virtutem suam.23 Et, filii Sion, exsultate,et ltamini in Domino Deo vestro,quia dedit vobis doctorem justiti,et descendere faciet ad vos imbrem matutinum et serotinum,sicut in principio.24 Et implebuntur are frumento,et redundabunt torcularia vino et oleo.25 Et reddam vobis annos, quos comedit locusta,bruchus, et rubigo, et eruca :fortitudo mea magna quam misi in vos.26 Et comedetis vescentes, et saturabimini ;et laudabitis nomen Domini Dei vestri,qui fecit mirabilia vobiscum ;et non confundetur populus meus in sempiternum.27 Et scietis quia in medio Isral ego sum,et ego Dominus Deus vester, et non est amplius ;et non confundetur populus meus in ternum.]28 [Et erit post hc :effundam spiritum meum super omnem carnem,et prophetabunt filii vestri et fili vestr :senes vestri somnia somniabunt,et juvenes vestri visiones videbunt.29 Sed et super servos meos et ancillasin diebus illis effundam spiritum meum.30 Et dabo prodigia in clo et in terra,sanguinem, et ignem, et vaporem fumi.31 Sol convertetur in tenebras,et luna in sanguinem,antequam veniat dies Domini magnus et horribilis.32 Et erit : omnis qui invocaverit nomen Domini, salvus erit :quia in monte Sion et in Jerusalemerit salvatio, sicut dixit Dominus,et in residuis quos Dominus vocaverit.]