Joel:3:1-16
Seeker Overlay ON
*
For ,
behold ,
in those days and in that time ,
when I bring again the exiles of Judah and Jerusalem ,
*
I will also gather all nations ,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat .
And I will enter into judgment with them there ,
for My people and My inheritance ,
Israel ,
whom they have scattered among the nations ;
and they shared out My land .
*
And they have cast lots for My people .
And they have given a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine ,
and they drank .
*
And also ,
what are you to Me ,
Tyre and Sidon ,
and all the regions of Philistia ?
Are you restoring repayment to Me ?
And if you are repaying Me ,
I will turn your reward on your own head ,
swiftly ,
speedily ,
*
in that you have taken My silver and My gold and have carried My good treasures to your temples .
*
You have also sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks ,
that you might remove them far from their border .
*
Behold ,
I am arousing them from the place where you have sold them ,
and will return your reward on 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 Sabeans ,
to a nation far off .
For Jehovah has spoken it .
*
Proclaim this among the nations :
Sanctify a war ;
awaken 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 .
*
Gather yourselves and come ,
all you nations ;
and gather yourselves together all around .
O Jehovah ,
bring down Your mighty ones .
*
Let the nations be awakened and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat .
For there I will sit to judge all the nations all around .
*
Put in the sickle ,
for the harvest is ripe .
Come ,
go down ,
for the press is full ,
the vats overflow ,
for their wickedness is great .
*
Multitudes ,
multitudes in valley of decision !
For the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision .
*
The sun and the moon shall be darkened ,
and the stars shall gather in their light .
*
And Jehovah roars from Zion ,
and He gives His voice from Jerusalem .
And the heavens and the earth quake .
But Jehovah is a refuge for His people and a fortress to the sons of Israel .
![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}