Joel 3 : 1 (NET)
For look! In those days and at that time I will return the exiles to Judah and Jerusalem.
Joel 3 : 2 (NET)
Then I will gather all the nations, and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. I will enter into judgment against them there concerning my people Israel who are my inheritance, whom they scattered among the nations. They partitioned my land,
Joel 3 : 3 (NET)
and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.
Joel 3 : 4 (NET)
Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon? Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? I will very quickly repay you for what you have done!
Joel 3 : 5 (NET)
For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.
Joel 3 : 6 (NET)
You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country.
Joel 3 : 7 (NET)
Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them. I will repay you for what you have done!
Joel 3 : 8 (NET)
I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah. They will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away. Indeed, the LORD has spoken!
Joel 3 : 9 (NET)
Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for a holy war! Call out the warriors! Let all these fighting men approach and attack!
Joel 3 : 10 (NET)
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, 'I too am a warrior!'
Joel 3 : 11 (NET)
Lend your aid and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves to that place." Bring down, O LORD, your warriors!
Joel 3 : 12 (NET)
Let the nations be roused and let them go up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit in judgment on all the surrounding nations.
Joel 3 : 13 (NET)
Rush forth with the sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Come, stomp the grapes, for the winepress is full! The vats overflow. Indeed, their evil is great!
Joel 3 : 14 (NET)
Crowds, great crowds are in the valley of decision, for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision!
Joel 3 : 15 (NET)
The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.
Joel 3 : 16 (NET)
The LORD roars from Zion; from Jerusalem his voice bellows out. The heavens and the earth shake. But the LORD is a refuge for his people; he is a stronghold for the citizens of Israel.
Joel 3 : 17 (NET)
You will be convinced that I the LORD am your God, dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy� conquering armies will no longer pass through it.
Joel 3 : 18 (NET)
On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the LORD, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.
Joel 3 : 19 (NET)
Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
Joel 3 : 20 (NET)
But Judah will reside securely forever, and Jerusalem will be secure from one generation to the next.
Joel 3 : 21 (NET)
I will avenge their blood which I had not previously acquitted. It is the LORD who dwells in Zion!
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