shall run as giants, and climb the walls as warriors: every one shall go straight before him, and shall not fail.

No man shall mistake another, but every man shall go in his own order: and they shall break through the weapons, and shall not be wounded.

They shall ride about in the city, and run upon the wall, and enter into the houses, and come in at the windows like a thief.

Before him the land trembles, and the heavens shake: the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their light.

For the LORD will give up his thunder before his army: for his army is very great and mighty, which shall execute his command: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible: who can bear it?

Thus saith the LORD; Turn ye unto me with all your heart with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation.

Rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God. For he is gracious, merciful, patient, and of great goodness, and soon repents of punishment.

Who knoweth it may repent him again, and leave him a blessing, to offer meat offering and drink offering unto the LORD your God?

Blow with the trumpets in Zion, sanctify a fast, call the congregation together.

Gather the people together, sanctify the congregation, gather the elders, bring the young children and the babes in multitude. Let the bridegroom go out of his chamber, and the bride out of her chamber.

Let the priests, the servants of the LORD, weep between the hall and the altar, and say, O
LORD, spare thy people, and let not thine inheritance fail, that the heathen should reign over them. Why wilt thou cause the nations to say, Where is their God?

Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and spare his people.

And the LORD shall answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn and wine and oil in abundance, and ye shall have enough of them; and I will not suffer you to be put to shame among the heathen any more.

And I will drive him from the north far from you, and cast him into a dry and desolate land, even his face toward the sea eastward, and his end toward the uttermost sea. He shall rot and stink: for he hath done great things.

Fear not, O land, but be glad and of good cheer: for the LORD also is able to do great things.

Fear not, ye beasts of the field: for the dwellings of the wilderness shall flourish, and the trees shall bring forth their fruit, and the fig trees and the vines shall yield their fruit.

And ye children of Zion, rejoice and be glad in the LORD your God, which giveth you teachers of righteousness, and sendeth you early rain and late rain, as before, 24. That the threshingfloors may be full of corn, and the winepresses have abundance of must and oil.

And I will recompense you the years that the locusts, and the beetles, and the caterpillars, which were my great host, which I sent among you, have eaten,

That ye may have enough to eat, and praise the name of the LORD your God, which hath done wonders among you: and my people shall be put to shame no more.

And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I the LORD am your God, and none more: and my people shall be put to shame no more.
Ch. 3, v. 1. And after this I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

And at the same time I will pour out my spirit upon both the servants and the handmaids.

And will shew wondrous signs in heaven and in earth, namely, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be salvation, as the LORD hath promised, even to the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
(Joel)
Chapter 3
Protection of the church against the enemies.

For, behold, in those days, and at that time, when I shall turn the prison of Judah and Jerusalem,

And I will gather all the heathen together, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and there will I make terms with them for my people, and for my inheritance Israel, which they have scattered among the heathen, and divided themselves into my land.

And have cast lots for my people, and have given the boys for meat, and have sold the maidens for wine, and have made them drunk.

And ye of Zor, and Zidon, and all the border of the Philistines, what have ye to do with me?
Will ye defy me? If ye will defy me, I will speedily repay you upon your head, 10. Who have taken my silver and gold and my beautiful jewels, and have brought them into your churches,

For ye have also sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the Grecians, that ye might bring them far from their borders.

Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye sold them, and will recompense you upon your head.

And I will sell your sons and your daughters again, by the children of Judah; and they shall sell them unto them that are in the kingdom of Arabia, a people of far countries: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Proclaim this among the heathen; sanctify a battle; stir up the mighty; let all the men of war come and go up.

Make your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak man speak: I am strong.

Make a flock, and come hither, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together.
There shall the LORD put down thy mighty ones.

And the heathen shall arise, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

Strike the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come down, for the winepress is full, and the winepress overflows; for their wickedness is great.

Here and there shall be multitudes in the valley of judgment: for the day of the LORD is near
in the valley of judgment.

the sun and the moon will be darkened and the stars will restrain their light.

And the LORD shall roar out of Zion, and shall cause his voice to be heard out of Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake. But the LORD shall be a refuge unto his people, and a stronghold unto the children of Israel.

And ye shall know that I the LORD your God dwell in Zion in my holy mountain. Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and no stranger shall pass through her.

In that day shall the mountains run with sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall run with water: and there shall go forth a fountain from the house of the LORD, and it shall water the river Sittim.

But Egypt shall be desolate, and Edom a desolate waste, because of the iniquity of the children of Judah, that they shed innocent blood in their land.

But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem for ever.

And I will not leave their blood unavenged. And the LORD shall dwell in Zion.
Text of the unrevised Luther Bible 1545:
DeepL English Translation
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The prophet Amos ^
Chapter 1
God’s punishments are threatened to the neighbors of the Israelites.

This is it that Amos, which was among the shepherds of Thekoa, saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

And he said, The LORD shall roar out of Zion, and shall cause his voice to be heard out of Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds shall be desolate, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

Thus saith the LORD; For three and four vices of Damascus will I not spare them; because they have beaten Gilead with the tines of iron,

But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.

And I will break the bars of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants of the field of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre, out of the house of pleasure; and the people of Syria shall be carried away to Kir, saith the LORD.

Thus saith the LORD; For three and four vices of Gase I will not spare them, because they have carried away captivity captive, and have driven them into the land of Edom, 7. But I will send a fire into the walls of Gaza, and it shall consume their palaces.

And I will cut off the inhabitants of Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre, out of Ascalon; and I will turn mine hand against Acron, and all that remain of the Philistines shall perish, saith the LORD GOD.

Thus saith the LORD; For three and four vices of the city of Zor will I not spare them, because they have carried away the captives into the land of Edom, and have not remembered the covenant of the brethren,

But I will send a fire into the walls of Zor, and it shall devour their palaces.

Thus saith the LORD; For three and four vices of Edom will I not spare