Joel - 3

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel - .

17 - So shall ye know that I 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, 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 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 that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.