Joel:3:1-16

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* For , behold , in those days , and in that time , when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem , * I will gather all nations , and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat . And I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel , whom they have scattered among the nations . And they have par * and have cast lots for my people , and have given a boy for a harlot , and sold a girl for wine , that they may drink . * Yea , and what are ye to me , O Tyre , and Sidon , and all the regions of Philistia ? Will ye render me a recompense ? And if ye recompense me , I will return your recompense swiftly and speedily upon your own head . * Inasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold , and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things , * and have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Grecians , that ye may remove them far from their border , * behold , I will stir them up out of the place where ye have sold them , and will return your recompense upon your own head . * And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah , and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba , to a nation far off . For LORD has spoken it . * Proclaim ye this among the nations : Prepare war . Stir up the mighty men . Let all the men of war draw near . Let them come up . * Beat your plowshares into swords , and your pruning-hooks into spears . Let the weak say , I am strong . * Hasten ye , and come , all ye nations round about , and gather yourselves together . Cause thy mighty ones to come down there , O LORD . * Let the nations bestir themselves , and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat , for there I will sit to judge all the nations round about . * Put ye in the sickle , for the harvest is ripe . Come , tread ye , for the winepress is full , the vats overflow . For their wickedness is great . * Multitudes , multitudes in the valley of decision ! For the day of LORD is near in the valley of decision . * The sun and the moon are darkened , and the stars withdraw their shining . * And LORD will roar from Zion , and utter his voice from Jerusalem , and the heavens and the earth shall shake . But LORD will be a refuge to his people , and a stronghold to the sons of Israel .

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