Joel 2:23-27

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²³Be glad, people of Zion,
    rejoice^(A) in the Lord your God,
for he has given you the autumn rains
    because he is faithful.^(B)
He sends you abundant showers,^(C)
    both autumn^(D) and spring rains,^(E) as before.
²⁴The threshing floors will be filled with grain;
    the vats will overflow^(F) with new wine^(G) and oil.

²⁵“I will repay you for the years the locusts^(H) have eaten^(I)—
    the great locust and the young locust,
    the other locusts and the locust swarm^[a]—
my great army^(J) that I sent among you.
²⁶You will have plenty to eat, until you are full,^(K)
    and you will praise^(L) the name of the Lord your God,
    who has worked wonders^(M) for you;
never again will my people be shamed.^(N)
²⁷Then you will know^(O) that I am in Israel,
    that I am the Lord^(P) your God,
    and that there is no other;
never again will my people be shamed.^(Q)

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Footnotes

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

Luke 18:9-14

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The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

⁹To some who were confident of their own righteousness^(A) and looked down on everyone else,^(B) Jesus told this parable: ¹⁰“Two men went up to the temple to pray,^(C) one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. ¹¹The Pharisee stood by himself^(D) and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. ¹²I fast^(E) twice a week and give a tenth^(F) of all I get.’

¹³“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast^(G) and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’^(H)

¹⁴“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”^(I)

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