Joel Chapter 3 Back{3:1} "For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of
Judah and
Jerusalem,
{3:2} I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the
valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage,
Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,
{3:3} and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may
drink.
{3:4} "Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
{3:5} Because you have taken my silver and my
gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
{3:6} and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the
Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.
{3:7} Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;
{3:8} and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for Yahweh has spoken it."
{3:9} Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.
{3:10} Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning
hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'
{3:11} Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together." Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
{3:12} "Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
{3:13} Put in the sickle; for the
harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great."
{3:14} Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
{3:15} The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
{3:16} Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the
heavens and the
earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
{3:17} "So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.
{3:18} It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the
hills will flow with
milk, all the
brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a
fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh, and will water the valley of Shittim.
{3:19}
Egypt will be a desolation, and
Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent
blood in their land.
{3:20} But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
{3:21} I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwells in Zion."
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