web@Joel:3:1 @ "For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
web@Joel:3:2 @ I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,
web@Joel:3:3 @ and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
web@Joel:3:4 @ "Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
web@Joel:3:5 @ Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
web@Joel:3:6 @ and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.
web@Joel:3:7 @ Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;
web@Joel:3:8 @ and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for Yahweh has spoken it."
web@Joel:3:9 @ Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.
web@Joel:3:10 @ Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'
web@Joel:3:11 @ Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together." Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
web@Joel:3:12 @ "Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
web@Joel:3:13 @ Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great."
web@Joel:3:14 @ Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
web@Joel:3:15 @ The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
web@Joel:3:16 @ Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.