1209 Joel 1-3; Revelation 1; Psalm 128; Proverbs 29:18

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Joel 1-3; Revelation 1; Psalm 128; Proverbs 29:18 (Contemporary English Version)

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Joel 1-3

1 I am Joel the son of Pethuel.

And this is the message

the Lord gave to me.

Locusts Cover the Land

2 Listen, you leaders

and everyone else

in the land.

Has anything like this

ever happened before?

3 Tell our children!

Let it be told

to our grandchildren

and their children too.

4 Swarm after swarm of locusts

has attacked our crops,

eating everything in sight.

5 Sober up, you drunkards!

Cry long and loud;

your wine supply is gone.

6 A powerful nation

with countless troops

has invaded our land.

They have the teeth and jaws

of powerful lions.

7 Our grapevines and fig trees

are stripped bare;

only naked branches remain.

8 Grieve like a young woman

mourning for the man

she was to marry.

9 Offerings of grain and wine

are no longer brought

to the Lord’s temple.

His servants, the priests,

are deep in sorrow.

10 Barren fields mourn;

grain, grapes, and olives

are scorched and shriveled.

11 Mourn for our farms

and our vineyards!

There’s no wheat or barley

growing in our fields.

12 Grapevines have dried up

and so has every tree—

figs and pomegranates,

date palms and apples.

All happiness has faded away.

Return to God

13 Mourn, you priests who serve

at the altar of my God.

Spend your days and nights

wearing sackcloth.

Offerings of grain and wine

are no longer brought

to the Lord’s temple.

14 Tell the leaders and people

to come together

at the temple.

Order them to go without eating

and to pray sincerely.

15 We are in for trouble!

Soon the Lord All-Powerful

will bring disaster.

16 Our food is already gone;

there’s no more celebrating

at the temple of our God.

17 Seeds dry up in the ground;

no harvest is possible.

Our barns are in bad shape,

with no grain

to store in them.

18 Our cattle wander aimlessly,

moaning for lack of pasture,

and sheep are suffering.

19 I cry out to you, Lord.

Grasslands and forests are eaten

by the scorching heat.

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1 Wild animals have no water

because of you;

rivers and streams are dry,

and pastures are parched.

Locusts and an Enemy Army

2 Sound the trumpet on Zion,

the Lord’s sacred hill.

Warn everyone to tremble!

The judgment day of the Lord

is coming soon.

2 It will be dark and gloomy

with storm clouds overhead.

Troops will cover the mountains

like thunderclouds.

No army this powerful

has ever been gathered before

or will ever be again.

3 Fiery flames surround them;

no one escapes.

Before they invaded,

the land was like Eden;

now only a desert remains.

4 They look like horses

and charge like cavalry.

5 They roar over mountains

like noisy chariots,

or a mighty army

ready for battle.

They are a forest fire

that feasts on straw.

6 The very sight of them

is frightening.

7 They climb over walls

like warriors;

they march in columns

and never turn aside.

8 They charge straight ahead,

without pushing each other;

even arrows and spears

cannot make them retreat.

9 They swarm over city walls

and enter our homes;

they crawl in through windows,

just like thieves.

10 They make the earth tremble

and the heavens shake;

the sun and moon turn dark,

and stars stop shining.

11 The Lord God leads this army

of countless troops,

and they obey his commands.

The day of his judgment

is so terrible

that no one can stand it.

The Lord’s Invitation

12 The Lord said:

It isn’t too late.

You can still return to me

with all your heart.

Start crying and mourning!

Go without eating.

13 Don’t rip your clothes

to show your sorrow.

Instead, turn back to me

with broken hearts.

I am merciful, kind, and caring.

I don’t easily lose my temper,

and I don’t like to punish.

14 I am the Lord your God.

Perhaps I will change my mind

and treat you with mercy.

Then you will be blessed

with enough grain and wine

for offering sacrifices to me.

15 Sound the trumpet on Zion!

Call the people together.

Show your sorrow

by going without food.

16 Make sure that everyone

is fit to worship me.

Bring adults, children, babies,

and even bring newlyweds

from their festivities.

17 Tell my servants, the priests,

to cry inside the temple

and to offer this prayer

near the altar:

“Save your people, Lord God!

Don’t let foreign nations

make jokes about us.

Don’t let them laugh and ask,

‘Where is your God?’”

The Lord Will Bless the Land

18 The Lord was deeply concerned

about his land

and had pity on his people.

19 In answer to their prayers

he said,

“I will give you enough grain,

wine, and olive oil

to satisfy your needs.

No longer will I let you

be insulted by the nations.

20 An army attacked from the north,

but I will chase it

into a scorching desert.

There it will rot and stink

from the Dead Sea

to the Mediterranean.”

The Lord works wonders

21 and does great things.

So tell the soil to celebrate

22 and wild animals

to stop being afraid.

Grasslands are green again;

fruit trees and fig trees

are loaded with fruit.

Grapevines are covered

with grapes.

23 People of Zion,

celebrate in honor

of the Lord your God!

He is generous and has sent

the autumn and spring rains

in the proper seasons.

24 Grain will cover

your threshing places;

jars will overflow

with wine and olive oil.

The Lord Will Rescue His People

25 I, the Lord your God,

will make up for the losses

caused by those swarms

and swarms of locusts

I sent to attack you.

26 My people, you will eat

until you are satisfied.

Then you will praise me

for the wonderful things

I have done.

Never again will you

be put to shame.

27 Israel, you will know

that I stand at your side.

I am the Lord your God—

there are no other gods.

Never again will you

be put to shame.

The Lord Will Work Wonders

The Lord said:

28 Later, I will give my Spirit

to everyone.

Your sons and daughters

will prophesy.

Your old men

will have dreams,

and your young men

will see visions.

29 In those days I will even give

my Spirit to my servants,

both men and women.

30 I will work wonders

in the sky above

and on the earth below.

There will be blood and fire

and clouds of smoke.

31 The sun will turn dark,

and the moon

will be as red as blood

before that great

and terrible day

when I appear.

32 Then the Lord will save everyone who faithfully worships him. He has promised there will be survivors on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and among them will be his chosen ones.

The Lord Will Judge the Nations

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1 At that time I, the Lord, will make Judah and Jerusalem prosperous again.

2 Then in Judgment Valley I will bring together the nations that scattered my people Israel everywhere in the world, and I will bring charges against those nations. They divided up my land

3 and gambled to see who would get my people; they sold boys and girls to pay for prostitutes and wine.

4 You people of Tyre and Sidon and you Philistines, why are you doing this? Are you trying to get even with me? I’ll strike back before you know what’s happened.

5 You’ve taken my prized possessions, including my silver and gold, and carried them off to your temples.

6 You have dragged the people of Judah and Jerusalem from their land and sold them to the Greeks.

7 But I’ll make the people of Judah determined to come home, and what happened to them will happen to you.

8 I’ll hand over your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, who live far away. I, the Lord, have spoken!

Judgment in Judgment Valley

9 Say to the nations:

“Get ready for war!

Be eager to fight.

Line up for battle

and prepare to attack.

10 Make swords out of plows

and spears out of garden tools.

Strengthen every weakling.”

11 Hurry, all you nations!

Come quickly.

Ask the Lord to bring

his warriors along.

12 You must come now

to Judgment Valley,

where the Lord will judge

the surrounding nations.

13 They are a field of ripe crops.

Bring in the harvest!

They are grapes piled high.

Start trampling them now!

If our enemy’s sins were wine,

every jar would overflow.

14 Crowds fill Decision Valley.

The judgment day of the Lord

will soon be here—

15 no light from the sun or moon,

and stars no longer shine.

16 From the heart of Jerusalem

the Lord roars like a lion,

shaking the earth and sky.

But the Lord is a fortress,

a place of safety

for his people Israel.

God Will Bless His People

17 I am the Lord your God.

And you will know I live on Zion,

my sacred hill,

because Jerusalem will be sacred,

untouched by foreign troops.

18 On that day, fruitful vineyards

will cover the mountains.

And your cattle and goats

that graze on the hills

will produce a lot of milk.

Streams in Judah

will never run dry;

a stream from my house

will flow in Acacia Valley.

19 Egypt and Edom were cruel

and brutal to Judah,

without a reason.

Now their countries will become

a barren desert,

20 but Judah and Jerusalem

will always have people.

21 I, the Lord, live on Mount Zion.

I will punish the guilty

and defend the innocent.

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

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Revelation 1

1 This is what God showed to Jesus Christ, so that he could tell his servants what must happen soon. Christ then sent his angel with the message to his servant John.

2 And John told everything that he had seen about God’s message and about what Jesus Christ had said and done.

3 God will bless everyone who reads this prophecy to others, and he will bless everyone who hears and obeys it. The time is almost here.

4 From John to the seven churches in Asia.

I pray that you

will be blessed

with kindness and peace

from God, who is and was

and is coming.

May you receive

kindness and peace

from the seven spirits

before the throne of God.

5 May kindness and peace

be yours

from Jesus Christ,

the faithful witness.

Jesus was the first

to conquer death,

and he is the ruler

of all earthly kings.

Christ loves us,

and by his blood

he set us free

from our sins.

6 He lets us rule as kings

and serve God his Father

as priests.

To him be glory and power

forever and ever! Amen.

7 Look! He is coming

with the clouds.

Everyone will see him,

even the ones who stuck

a sword through him.

All people on earth

will weep because of him.

Yes, it will happen! Amen.

8 The Lord God says, “I am Alpha and Omega, the one who is and was and is coming. I am God All-Powerful!”

A Vision of the Risen Lord

9 I am John, a follower together with all of you. We suffer because Jesus is our king, but he gives us the strength to endure. I was sent to Patmos Island, because I had preached God’s message and had told about Jesus.

10 On the Lord’s day the Spirit took control of me, and behind me I heard a loud voice that sounded like a trumpet.

11 The voice said, “Write in a book what you see. Then send it to the seven churches in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

12 When I turned to see who was speaking to me, I saw seven gold lampstands.

13 There with the lampstands was someone who seemed to be the Son of Man. He was wearing a robe that reached down to his feet, and a gold cloth was wrapped around his chest.

14 His head and his hair were white as wool or snow, and his eyes looked like flames of fire.

15 His feet were glowing like bronze being heated in a furnace, and his voice sounded like the roar of a waterfall.

16 He held seven stars in his right hand, and a sharp double-edged sword was coming from his mouth. His face was shining as bright as the sun at noon.

17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead person. But he put his right hand on me and said:

Don’t be afraid! I am the first, the last,

18 and the living one. I died, but now I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys to death and the world of the dead.

19 Write what you have seen and what is and what will happen after these things.

20 I will explain the mystery of the seven stars that you saw at my right side and the seven gold lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the lampstands are the seven churches.

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society For more information about CEV, visit www.bibles.com and www.cev.bible.

Psalm 128

(A song for worship.)

The Lord Rewards His Faithful People

128

1 The Lord will bless you

if you respect him

and obey his laws.

2 Your fields will produce,

and you will be happy

and all will go well.

3 Your wife will be as fruitful

as a grapevine,

and just as an olive tree

is rich with olives,

your home will be rich

with healthy children.

4 That is how the Lord will bless

everyone who respects him.

5 I pray that the Lord

will bless you from Zion

and let Jerusalem prosper

as long as you live.

6 May you live long enough

to see your grandchildren.

Let’s pray for peace in Israel!

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

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Proverbs 29:18

18 Without guidance from God

law and order disappear,

but God blesses everyone

who obeys his Law.

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society For more information about CEV, visit www.bibles.com and www.cev.bible.