Joel - Chapter 3 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
  • 2. I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and {cf15I for} my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
  • 3. And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
  • 4. Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly {cf15I and} speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
  • 5. Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
  • 6. The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
  • 7. Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
  • 8. And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken {cf15I it}.
  • 9. Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
  • 10. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I {cf15I am} strong.
  • 11. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
  • 12. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
  • 13. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness {cf15I is} great.
  • 14. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD {cf15I is} near in the valley of decision.
  • 15. The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
  • 16. The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD {cf15I will be} the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
  • 17. So shall ye know that I {cf15I am} the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
  • 18. And it shall come to pass in that day, {cf15I that} the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
  • 19. Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence {cf15I against} the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
  • 20. But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
  • 21. For I will cleanse their blood {cf15I that} I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
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