15 "Blow the shofar in Tziyon! Proclaim a holy fast, call for a solemn assembly." 16 Gather the people; consecrate the congregation; assemble the leaders; gather the children, even infants sucking at the breast; let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride the bridal chamber. 17 Let the cohanim, who serve Adonai, stand weeping between the vestibule and the altar. Let them say, "Spare your people, Adonai! Don't expose your heritage to mockery, or make them a byward among the Goyim. Why should the peoples say, 'Where is their God?'" 18 Then Adonai will become jealous for his land and have pity on his people. 19 Here is how Adonai will answer his people: "I will send you grain, wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy you; and no longer will I make you a mockery among the Goyim.

20 No, I will take the northerner away, far away from you, and drive him to a land that is waste and barren; with his vanguard toward the eastern sea and his rearguard toward the western sea, his stench and his rottenness will rise, because he has done great things." 21 Don't fear, O soil; be glad! rejoice! for Adonai has done great things. 22 Don't be afraid, wild animals; for the desert pastures are green, the trees are putting out their fruit, the fig tree and vine are giving full yield. 23 Be glad, people of Tziyon! rejoice in Adonai your God! For he is giving you the right amount of rain in the fall, he makes the rain come down for you, the fall and spring rains this is what he does first. 24 Then the floors will be full of grain and the vats overflow with wine and olive oil. 25 "I will restore to you the years that the locusts ate, the grasshoppers, shearerworms and cutter-worms, my great army that I sent against you.

26 You will eat until you are satisfied and will praise the name of Adonai your God, who has done with you such wonders. Then my people will never again be shamed. 27 You will know that I am with Isra'el and that I am Adonai your God, and that there is no other. Then my people will never again be shamed. Joel 3 1 "After this, I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions; 2 and also on male and female slaves in those days I will pour out my Spirit. 3 I will show wonders in the sky and on earth blood, fire and columns of smoke. 4 The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and terrible Day of Adonai." 5 At that time, whoever calls on the name of Adonai will be saved. For in Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim there will be those who escape, as Adonai has promised; among the survivors will be those whom Adonai has called.

Amos 1 1 The words of 'Amos, one of the sheep owners in T'koa, which he saw concerning Isra'el in the days of 'Uziyah king of Y'hudah and Yarov'am the son of Yo'ash, king of Isra'el, two years before the earthquake; 2 he said: Adonai is roaring from Tziyon thundering from Yerushalayim; the shepherds' pastures will mourn, and Mount Karmel's summit will wither. 3 Here is what Adonai says: "For Dammesek's three crimes, no, four I will not reverse it because they threshed Gil'ad with an iron-spiked threshing-sledge; 4 I will send fire to the house of Haza'el, and it will consume the palaces of BenHadad. 5 I will break the bars of Dammesek's gates. I will cut off the inhabitants from Bik'atAven, and him who holds the scepter from Beit-'Eden. Then the people of Aram will go into exile in Kir," says Adonai. 6 Here is what Adonai says: "For 'Azah's three crimes, no, four I will not reverse it because they exiled a whole population and handed them over to Edom;