<t /><p class="poetry">Blow the trumpet<n id="1" /> in Zion;p> <p class="poetry">sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain!p> <p class="poetry">Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear,p> <p class="poetry">for the day of the <sc>Lordsc> is about to come.p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="2" /> it is near!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They sound like<n id="1" /> chariots rumbling<n id="2" /> over mountain tops,p> <p class="poetry">like the crackling<n id="3" /> of blazing fire consuming stubble,p> <p class="poetry">like the noise of<n id="4" /> a mighty army<n id="5" /> being drawn up for battle.<n id="6" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">You will be convinced<n id="1" /> that I the <sc>Lordsc> am your God,p> <p class="poetry">dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain.p> <p class="poetry">Jerusalem<n id="2" /> will be holy &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">conquering armies<n id="3" /> will no longer pass through it.p>

<p class="poetry">It will be<n id="1" /> a day of dreadful darkness,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">a day of foreboding storm clouds,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">like blackness<n id="4" /> spread over the mountains.p> <p class="poetry">It is a huge and powerful army<n id="5" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">there has never been anything like it ever before,p> <p class="poetry">and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">It will so happen thatp> <p class="poetry">everyone who calls on the name of the <sc>Lordsc> will be delivered.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem<n id="2" /> there will be those who survive,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">just as the <sc>Lordsc> has promised;p> <p class="poetry">the remnant<n id="4" /> will be those whom the <sc>Lordsc> will call.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">On that day<n id="1" /> the mountains will drip with sweet wine,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the hills will flow with milk.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">All the dry stream beds<n id="4" /> of Judah will flow with water.p> <p class="poetry">A spring will flow out from the temple<n id="5" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.<n id="6" />p>