Joel:3

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* For , behold , in those days , and in that time , when I shall bring again (8675 ) the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem , * 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 Yisra #el #, whom they have scattered among the nations , and parted my land . * 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 . * 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 ro #sh #; * Because ye have taken my silver and my gold , and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things : * The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians Y @vaniy #, that ye might remove them far from their border . * Behold , I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them , and will return your recompence upon your own head ro #sh #: * 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 Sh @ba #iy #, to a people far off : for the LORD hath spoken it . * 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 : * Beat your plowshares into swords , and your pruninghooks into spears : let the weak say , I am strong . * Assemble yourselves , and come , all ye heathen , and gather yourselves together round about : thither cause thy mighty ones to come down , O LORD . * 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 . * 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 . * Multitudes , multitudes in the valley of decision : for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision . * The sun and the moon shall be darkened , and the stars shall withdraw their shining . * 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 Yisra #el #. * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * But Judah shall dwell for ever , and Jerusalem from generation to generation . * For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed : for the LORD dwelleth in Zion .

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