Joel 2:1-2

Good News Translation

2 Blow the trumpet; sound the alarm
    on Zion, God's sacred hill.^[a]
Tremble, people of Judah!
    The day of the Lord is coming soon.
² It will be a dark and gloomy day,
    a black and cloudy day.
The great army of locusts advances
    like darkness spreading over the mountains.
There has never been anything like it,
    and there never will be again.