Joel - Chapter 3 | New International Version

  • 1. In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
  • 2. I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
  • 3. They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine that they might drink.
  • 4. Now what have you against me, O Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.
  • 5. For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.
  • 6. You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.
  • 7. See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.
  • 8. I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away." The LORD has spoken.
  • 9. Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
  • 10. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, "I am strong!"
  • 11. Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD!
  • 12. Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.
  • 13. Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow-- so great is their wickedness!"
  • 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 moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine.
  • 16. The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the sky will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
  • 17. Then you will know that I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her.
  • 18. In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the LORD's house and will water the valley of acacias.
  • 19. But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
  • 20. Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem through all generations.
  • 21. Their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, I will pardon." The LORD dwells in Zion!
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