Joel 3

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1. 1Look, in those days and at that time, when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,
2. 2I will gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will contend with them for my people and my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations and divided my land.
3. 3They cast lots to divide my people among themselves. They traded a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
4. 4Yes, and what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, swiftly and speedily will I return your repayment upon your own head;
5. 5You took my silver and my gold and hauled my finest treasures into your temples.
6. 6You have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the Greeks so that you might remove them far from their border.
7. 7Look, I will raise them out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment upon your own head.
8. 8I will hand your sons and daughters over to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away. The LORD has spoken."
9. 9Announce this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let every fighting man step forward and advance.
10. 10Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let even the weak say, 'I am strong.'
11. 11Assemble yourselves and come, all you heathen, and gather together all around. O LORD, bring down your mighty ones to that place.
12. 12"Let the nations stir themselves and march to the valley of Jehoshaphat, because that is where I will sit in judgment over every surrounding nation.
13. 13Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down, for the press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.
14. 14Crowds upon crowds fill the valley of decision! The day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15. 15The sun and moon go dark, and the stars stop shining.
16. 16The LORD roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the heavens and the earth shake. But the LORD will be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel.
17. 17Then you will know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her anymore.
18. 18On that day, the mountains will drip with new wine, the hills will flow with milk, and the rivers of Judah will flow with water. A fountain will come from the house of the LORD and water the valley of Shittim.
19. 19Egypt will become a wasteland, and Edom will turn into an empty desert — because of the violence they committed against the people of Judah, shedding innocent blood in their land.
20. 20But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21. 21For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed, for the LORD dwells in Zion.