Joel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 613

4--9 jOEL. To the hands of the children of judah, And they will sell them to Shabaim! To a Nation afar--—for the Loan has declared it! Qt yrmnisz ui Success. Prepare for the war! Arouse, heroes! come on,——advance all men to battle! 4-·—2x Beat out your ploughshares to swords, and your scythes into spears! xo Let the feeble exclaim, ‘ I am strong! Quick! March! all you neighbouring Nations, And collect to the spot where the LORD Intends you to conquer your foes! Nations! arouse and advance to the Plain of G0iZ>’s justice! For there I will sit and will judge all the Nations around Me. Swing the scythe, for the harvest is ripe, Come! Tread ! For the wine-press is filling! Make the vats overflow, for the reaping is great, Crowds upon crowds on the Plain of the judgment! The day of the LoRD has arrived on the Plain where He fixes their doom.—- The Sun and the Moon are in black, And the Stars are withholding their beams. For the LORD out of Zion will roar, And send from jerusalem His voice!

Then the skies and the Earth will be shaken; But to His People the LORD`will be kind, And give help to all Israe1's sons Who acknowledge that I, Who AM L1FE_» Bm their GoD; Residing in Zion, on My Holy Hill. And jerusalem then shall be sacred, And foreigners no more oppress! Then the Mountains shall drop with sweet wine, And milk shall flow down from the slopes, And judah’s brooks stream full of water; And a spring shall flow from the LORD’S House, And water the Vale of Acacias! But Mitzer shall be like a waste, And Edom a desolate pasture, For their crime to the Children of judah, Whose imrocent blood they have shed in their lands. Butjudah for ever shall last, And jerusalem ages of ages! And I will requite for their unavenged blood ; For the LORD has His dwelling in Zion! This roh END or rms: Book or rm; Pnovuer joe;. TRANSLAII`OR’S NOTE. II

d about 800 e.c. It takes theform of a didactic Psal 16 18 20 ¤·’I

petic warning was utterem, as most other of the addresses of the Prophets did, their essential duty being to preach righteous- ness of life, not to foretell events, as now b a change in our language is popularly supposed. i ; was a perversion of the eighteenth century.-·F. F. 61 3