This is the Lord's message that was given to Joel the son of Pethuel:

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear, for the day of the Lord is about to come. Indeed, it is near!

The earth quakes before them; the sky reverberates. The sun and the moon grow dark; the stars refuse to shine.

Blow the trumpet in Zion. Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly!

Citizens of Zion, rejoice! Be glad because of what the Lord your God has done! For he has given to you the early rains as vindication. He has sent to you the rains -- both the early and the late rains as formerly.

It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the Lord has promised; the remnant will be those whom the Lord will call.

The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.

The Lord roars from Zion; from Jerusalem his voice bellows out. The heavens and the earth shake. But the Lord is a refuge for his people; he is a stronghold for the citizens of Israel.

You will be convinced that I the Lord am your God, dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy -- conquering armies will no longer pass through it.

I will avenge their blood which I had not previously acquitted. It is the Lord who dwells in Zion!