23-26 God will provide rain for the seeds you sow. The grain that grows will be abundant. Your cattle will range far and wide. Oblivious to war and earthquake, the oxen and donkeys you use for hauling and plowing will be fed well near running brooks that flow freely from mountains and hills. Better yet, on the Day God heals his people of the wounds and bruises from the time of punishment, moonlight will flare into sunlight, and sunlight, like a whole week of sunshine at once, will flood the land.

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27-28 Look, God’s on his way,
    and from a long way off!
Smoking with anger,
    immense as he comes into view,
Words steaming from his mouth,
    searing, indicting words!
A torrent of words, a flash flood of words
    sweeping everyone into the vortex of his words.
He’ll shake down the nations in a sieve of destruction,
    herd them into a dead end.

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25 In the day of great slaughter,(A) when the towers(B) fall, streams of water will flow(C) on every high mountain and every lofty hill. 26 The moon will shine like the sun,(D) and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the Lord binds up the bruises of his people and heals(E) the wounds he inflicted.

27 See, the Name(F) of the Lord comes from afar,
    with burning anger(G) and dense clouds of smoke;
his lips are full of wrath,(H)
    and his tongue is a consuming fire.(I)

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