Joel - Chapter 3 | English Standard Version

  • 1. "For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
  • 2. I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
  • 3. and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
  • 4. "What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
  • 5. For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
  • 6. You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
  • 7. Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head.
  • 8. I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken."
  • 9. Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.
  • 10. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior."
  • 11. Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.
  • 12. Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
  • 13. Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
  • 14. Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
  • 15. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
  • 16. The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.
  • 17. "So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
  • 18. "And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Shittim.
  • 19. "Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
  • 20. But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
  • 21. I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the LORD dwells in Zion."
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