This message from the LORD came to Pethuel's son Joel.

"Sound the ram's horn in Zion! Sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Tremble, all of you inhabitants of the land, because the Day of the LORD is coming. Oh, how near it is!

"The land quivers in their presence; even the heavens shake. The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will stop shining.

"Sound the ram's horn in Zion! Dedicate a fast and call for a solemn assembly!

And so be glad, children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, because he has given you the right amount of early rain, and he will cause the rain to fall for you, both the early rain and the later rain as before.

The sun will be given over to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and terrifying Day of the LORD.

And everyone who calls upon the name of the LORD will be delivered. For as the LORD has said, "In Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, the survivors whom the LORD is calling.'"

The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will stop shining.

"The LORD will roar from Zion, and shout from Jerusalem. The heavens and the earth will shake, but the LORD will be the refuge of his people, and the strength of the people of Israel."

"And truly you will know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no foreigners will invade her again.

I will acquit their bloodguilt that has not yet been acquitted. For the LORD lives in Zion!"