- "Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth."
1:5
- "He hath ... barked my fig tree."
1:7
- "Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth."
1:8
- "Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth."
1:13
- The animals are perplexed and cry out to God after he torments
them by burning their food and drying up the rivers.
1:18
- "A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness"
"The day of the Lord" will be dark and gloomy -- like a northern Idaho spring day.
2:2
- There will be earthquakes, the sun and the moon will be dark, and the stars will no longer shine.
2:10
- "Therefore also now, saith the LORD ... rend your hearts, and not your garments."
2:12
- God says he will repay Israel for the damage the locusts caused -- which he sent!
And they will "praise the name of the Lord."
2:25
- "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood." These "signs" were a lot more impressive before
the causes of solar and lunar eclipses were understood.
2:31
- "The day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand." ,
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3:14
- The Lord will roar and the heavens and earth will shake.
3:16