SIL Translator’s Notes on Joel 2:32

2:32a And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved;

But every person who calls on ⌊my name,⌋ the name of Yahweh, will live/survive/escape.
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Then ⌊I⌋ will save/rescue all who pray to me, Yahweh, for help.

2:32b for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance,

For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be ⌊those/some who⌋ escape,
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For on Zion mountain, in ⌊the city of⌋ Jerusalem, people will be saved/delivered,

2:32c as the LORD has promised,

just as I, Yahweh, have told ⌊you (plur.) ⌋ .
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just as I, Yahweh, have promised.

2:32d among the remnant called by the LORD.

Those people will be there⌋ among the survivors whom I, Yahweh, will call.”
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They will be⌋ among those whom I, Yahweh, will summon/choose to survive/live.”

2:32b–d (reordered)

For I, Yahweh, have said that on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be ⌊some who⌋ escape, and ⌊they will be there⌋ among the survivors whom I will call.”
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Yes, just as I have promised, there will be survivors on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. ⌊They will be there⌋ among those whom I, Yahweh, will summon/choose to survive. ”

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