Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty. -- 1:15

Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; surely it is near. -- 2:1

Do not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad, for the LORD has done  great things. -- 2:21

Then I will make up to you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten. -- 2:25

It will come about after this that I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. -- 2:28

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!  For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. -- 3:14

But Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem for all generations.
-- 3:20

What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; and what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; and what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten.  Awake, drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you wine drinkers, on account of the sweet wine that is cut off from your mouth.  For a nation has invaded my land, mighty and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.  It has made my vine a waste and my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; their branches have become white. -- 1:4-7

Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain!  Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; surely it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn is spread over the mountains, so there is a great and mighty people; there has never been anything like it, nor will there be again after it to the years of many generations.  A fire consumes before them and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them but a desolate wilderness behind them, and nothing at all escapes them.  Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; and like war horses, so they run.  With a noise as of chariots they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire consuming the stubble, like a mighty people arranged for battle. Before them the people are in anguish; all faces turn pale. -- 2:1-6

They rush on the city, they run on the wall; they climb into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.  Before them the earth quakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and the moon grow dark and the stars lose their brightness.  The LORD utters His voice before His army; surely His camp is very great, for strong is he who carries out His word. The day of the LORD is indeed great and very awesome, and who can endure it? -- 2:9-11

"Yet even now," declares the LORD, "return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, weeping and mourning; and rend your heart and not your garments."  Now return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness and relenting of evil.  Who knows whether He will not turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him, even a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?  Blow a trumpet in Zion. -- 2:12-15

It will come about after this that I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.  Even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.  I willdisplay wonders in the sky and on the earth, blood, fire and columns of smoke.  The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.  And it will come about that  whoever calls on the name of the LORD Will be delivered; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as the LORD has said, even among the survivors whom the LORD calls. -- 2:28-32

For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley ofJehoshaphat. Then I will  enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land. -- 3:1-2

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a mighty man."  Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down, O LORD, Your mighty ones.  Let the nations be aroused and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. -- 3:10-12

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!  For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.  The sun and moon grow dark and the stars lose their brightness.  The LORD roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth tremble. But the LORD is a refuge for His people and a stronghold to the sons of Israel.  Then you will  know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. So Jerusalem will be holy, and strangers will pass through it no more.  And in that day the mountains will drip with  sweet wine, and the hills willflow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah will flow with water; and a spring will go out from the house of the LORD to water the valley of Shittim.  Egypt will become a waste, and Edom will become a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the sons of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.  But Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem for all generations.  And I will  avenge their blood which I have not avenged, for the LORD dwells in Zion. -- 3:14-21