Blow the shofar in Żiyyon, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord comes, for it is near at hand;

a day of darkness and of gloom, a day of clouds and of thick darkness. Like twilight spread over the mountains, a great people and a mighty; there has not been ever the like, nor shall there be any more such after them, to the years of many generations.

A fire devours before them; and behind them blazes a flame: the land is like the garden of ῾Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; and nothing escapes them.

The appearance of them is like the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so do they run.

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains they leap; like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.

At their presence the peoples are in anguish: all faces are covered with blackness.

They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march everyone on his ways; and they do not break their ranks:

nor does one thrust another; they walk everyone in his path: and they burst through the weapons; they are not wounded.

They run to and fro in the city; they run upon the wall, they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.

The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble: the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining:

and the Lord utters his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he who executes his word is strong: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

Yet even now, says the Lord, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

and rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and great in love, and repents of evil.

Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him; a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

Blow the shofar in Żiyyon, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those who suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her pavilion.

Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not Thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

Then the Lord was zealous for his land, and pitied his people.

And the Lord answered and said to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations:

but I will remove far off from you the northern one, and will drive him into a barren and desolate land, with his face towards the eastern sea, and his hinder part toward the western sea, and his foulness shall come up, and his ill savour shall ascend, though he has done great things.

Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do greater things.

Be not afraid, O beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness shall spring, for the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

Be glad then, you children of Żiyyon, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he has given you the former rain in due measure, and he has brought down for you the rain in the first month, the former rain, and the latter rain.

And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the hopping locust, and the destroying locust, and the cutting locust, my great army which I sent among you.

And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

And you shall know that I am in the midst of Yisra᾽el, and that I am the Lord your God, and there it is none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.