Translation
and upon my servants and upon my handmaidens in those days I will be sure to pour forth my Spirit and they will prophesy.
Go to footnote numberParaphrase
and I will not leave out those men and women who have given up their will in order to do my will alone; I will be sure to lavishly impart my Spirit on them in the era of the Messiah and they will speak divinely inspired revelations of the mind of God.
Footnotes
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“to prophesy” can mean to speak a divinely inspired utterance, to speak forth a spiritual truth that people need to hear, or to foretell details of something that will happen in the future. Actually, all of these should come to a person through divine inspiration. Although we usually think prophecy means to foretell an event in the future, that was the least common usage of this word in Bible times.