Joel 3
1For behold, in those days, and in that time, 1 When I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 1
2I will also gather all nations, 1 And will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, 1 And will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, 1 Whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. 1
3And they have cast lots for my people; 1 And have given a boy for a harlot, 1 And sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. 1
4Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, 1 And all the coasts of Palestine? 1 Will ye render me a recompence? 1 And if ye recompense me, 1 Swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 1
5Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, 1 And have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 1
6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, 1 That ye might remove them far from their border. 1
7Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, 1 And will return your recompence upon your own head: 1
8And I will sell your sons and your daughters 1 Into the hand of the children of Judah, 1 And they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: 1 For the Lord hath spoken it. 1
9Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; 1 Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, 1 Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 1
10Beat your plowshares into swords, 1 And your pruninghooks into spears: 1 Let the weak say, I am strong. 1
11Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, 1 And gather yourselves together round about: 1 Thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. 1
12Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: 1 For there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 1
13Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: 1 Come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; 1 For their wickedness is great. 1
14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: 1 For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. 1
15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, 1 And the stars shall withdraw their shining. 1
16The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, 1 And utter his voice from Jerusalem; 1 And the heavens and the earth shall shake: 1 But the Lord will be the hope of his people, 1 And the strength of the children of Israel. 1
17So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God 1 Dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: 1 Then shall Jerusalem be holy, 1 And there shall no strangers pass through her any more. 1
18And it shall come to pass in that day, 1 That the mountains shall drop down new wine, 1 And the hills shall flow with milk, 1 And all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, 1 And a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, 1 And shall water the valley of Shittim. 1
19Egypt shall be a desolation, 1 And Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, 1 For the violence against the children of Judah, 1 Because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 1
20But Judah shall dwell for ever, 1 And Jerusalem from generation to generation. 1
21For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: 1 For the Lord dwelleth in Zion.