The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
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21 Don't fear, O soil; be glad! rejoice! for ADONAI has done great things.
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Do not be afraid, land of Judah; be glad and rejoice. Surely the LORD has done great things!
22 Don't be afraid, wild animals; for the desert pastures are green, the trees are putting out their fruit, the fig tree and vine are giving full yield.
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Do not be afraid, you wild animals, for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green. The trees are bearing their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their riches.
23 Be glad, people of Tziyon! rejoice in ADONAI your God! For he is giving you the right amount of rain in the fall, he makes the rain come down for you, the fall and spring rains - this is what he does first.
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Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
24 Then the floors will be full of grain and the vats overflow with wine and olive oil.
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The threshing floors will be filled with grain; the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
25 "I will restore to you the years that the locusts ate, the grasshoppers, shearer-worms and cutter-worms, my great army that I sent against you.
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“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm — my great army that I sent among you.
26 You will eat until you are satisfied and will praise the name of ADONAI your God, who has done with you such wonders. Then my people will never again be shamed.
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You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you; never again will my people be shamed.
27 You will know that I am with Isra'el and that I am ADONAI your God, and that there is no other. Then my people will never again be shamed.
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Then you will know that I am in Israel, that I am the LORD your God, and that there is no other; never again will my people be shamed.
28 "After this, I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions;
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“And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
29 and also on male and female slaves in those days I will pour out my Spirit.
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Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
30 I will show wonders in the sky and on earth - blood, fire and columns of smoke.
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I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
31 The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and terrible Day of ADONAI."
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The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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