| 3 | Joel | ||
| 1 | "For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, | God will judge the nations. Jl.3.1-15 | |
| 2 | I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations, and have divided up my land, | ||
| 3 | and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and have sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it. | ||
| 4 | "What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will requite your deed upon your own head swiftly and speedily. | ||
| 5 | Fore you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my riches into your temples. | ||
| 6 | You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border. | ||
| 7 | but now I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will require your deed upon your own head. | ||
| 8 | I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off; for Yahweh has spoken." | ||
| 9 | Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. | ||
| 10 | Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior." | ||
| 11 | Hasten and come, all the nations round about, gather themselves there. Bring down your warriors, O Yahweh. | ||
| 12 | 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. | ||
| 13 | Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the wine press is full. the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great. | ||
| 14 | Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision. | ||
| 15 | The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. | ||
| 16 | And Yahweh roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But Yahweh is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel. | ||
| 17 | "So you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who dwell in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall never again pass through it. | God will bless his people. Jl.3.17-21 | |
| 18 | "And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Yahweh and water the valley of Shittim. | ||
| 19 | "Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. | ||
| 20 | But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations. | ||
| 21 | I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty, for Yahweh dwell in Zion." | ||
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