Joel:3:1-16
nsb@Joel:3:1 @ »Behold! At that time I will bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem.
nsb@Joel:3:2 @ »I will gather all nations! I 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. They have scattered my people among the nations and they have divided up my land.
nsb@Joel:3:3 @ »They cast lots for my people, and traded a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
nsb@Joel:3:4 @ »What are you to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you pay recompense to me? If you pay recompense to me swiftly and speedily, will I return your recompense upon your own head?
nsb@Joel:3:5 @ »You have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my precious treasures into your temples.
nsb@Joel:3:6 @ »You sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks. You remove them far from their border.
nsb@Joel:3:7 @ »Behold, I will arouse them out of the place where you sold them and will return your recompense upon your head.
nsb@Joel:3:8 @ »I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah. And they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah has spoken it.
nsb@Joel:3:9 @ »Proclaim this among the nations! Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near let them come up.
nsb@Joel:3:10 @ Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, I am strong.
nsb@Joel:3:11 @ »Hurry and come all you nations round about. Gather yourselves there and cause your mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.
nsb@Joel:3:12 @ »Let the nations be aroused and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat! I will sit there to judge all the nations round about.
nsb@Joel:3:13 @ »Thrust in the sickle for the harvest is ripe! Come and tread for the winepress is full and the vats overflow. Their wickedness is great.
nsb@Joel:3:14 @ »Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! The day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
nsb@Joel:3:15 @ »The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars diminish their shining.
nsb@Joel:3:16 @ »Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem. The heavens and the earth will shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
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