Joel 3
3 1For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring
back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2I will gather all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute
judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they
have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land,
3and have
cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl
for wine, that they may drink.
4Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and
Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and
if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon
your own head.
5Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and
have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,
6and have sold
the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the
Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border;
7behold, I will
stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your
recompense upon your own head;
8and I will sell your sons and your
daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to
the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken it.
9Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men;
let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.
10Beat your
plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say,
I am strong.
11Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather
yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.
12Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of
Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.
13Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, tread ye; for the
winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of
Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
15The sun and the moon are
darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
16And Jehovah will roar
from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth
shall shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge unto his people, and a stronghold
to the children of Israel.
17So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God,
dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there
shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18And it shall come to pass
in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine, and the hills
shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters; and
a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the
valley of Shittim.
19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a
desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because
they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20But Judah shall abide for
ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21And I will cleanse
their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Jehovah dwelleth in Zion.
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