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Joel 3

The Nations Will Be Judged

¹“For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

²I will gather all the nations And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; And they have divided up My land.

³“They have also cast lots for My people, Traded a boy for a prostitute, And sold a girl for wine so that they may drink.

⁴Moreover, what are you to Me, Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying Me with retribution? But if you are showing Me retribution, swiftly and speedily I will return your retribution on your head! ⁵Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples, ⁶and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory, ⁷behold, I am going to stir them up from the place where you have sold them, and return your retribution on your head. ⁸I will also sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation,” for the Lord has spoken.

⁹¶Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for holy war; stir up the warriors! Have all the soldiers come forward, have them come up!

¹⁰Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak man say, “I am a warrior.”

¹¹Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves there. Bring down, Lord, Your warriors.

¹²Let the nations be awakened And come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I will sit to judge All the surrounding nations.

¹³Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread the grapes, for the wine press is full; The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.

¹⁴Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

¹⁵The sun and moon have become dark, And the stars have lost their brightness.

¹⁶The Lord roars from Zion And utters His voice from Jerusalem, And the heavens and the earth quake. But the Lord is a refuge for His people, And a stronghold for the sons of Israel.

¹⁷Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, Dwelling on Zion, My holy mountain. So Jerusalem will be holy, And strangers will no longer pass through it.

Judah Will Be Blessed

¹⁸¶And on that day The mountains will drip with sweet wine, And the hills will flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah will flow with water; And a spring will go out from the house of the Lord And water the Valley of Shittim.

¹⁹Egypt will become a wasteland, And Edom will become a desolate wilderness, Because of the violence done to the sons of Judah, In whose land they have shed innocent blood.

²⁰But Judah will be inhabited forever, And Jerusalem for all generations.

²¹And I will avenge their blood which I have not avenged, For the Lord dwells in Zion.

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