(A)a day of darkness and gloom,
    (B)a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
    (C)a great and powerful people;
(D)their like has never been before,
    nor will be again after them
    through the years of all generations.

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    a day of darkness(A) and gloom,(B)
    a day of clouds(C) and blackness.(D)
Like dawn spreading across the mountains
    a large and mighty army(E) comes,
such as never was in ancient times(F)
    nor ever will be in ages to come.

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For (A)a nation has come up against my land,
    (B)powerful and beyond number;
(C)its teeth are lions' teeth,
    and it has the fangs of a lioness.

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A nation has invaded my land,
    a mighty army without number;(A)
it has the teeth(B) of a lion,
    the fangs of a lioness.

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11 (A)The Lord utters his voice
    before (B)his army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
    (C)he who executes his word is powerful.
(D)For the day of the Lord is (E)great and very awesome;
    (F)who can endure it?

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11 The Lord(A) thunders(B)
    at the head of his army;(C)
his forces are beyond number,
    and mighty is the army that obeys his command.
The day of the Lord is great;(D)
    it is dreadful.
    Who can endure it?(E)

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25 I will restore[a] to you the years
    that (A)the swarming locust has eaten,
(B)the hopper, (C)the destroyer, and (D)the cutter,
    (E)my great army, which I sent among you.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:25 Or pay back

25 “I will repay you for the years the locusts(A) have eaten(B)
    the great locust and the young locust,
    the other locusts and the locust swarm[a]
my great army(C) that I sent among you.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:25 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.