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Joel Chapter 3
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1 “For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
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2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,
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3 and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
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4 “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
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5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
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6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.
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7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;
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8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for Yahweh has spoken it.”
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9 Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.
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10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
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11 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.” Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
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12 “Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
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13 Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”
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14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.
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15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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16 Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
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17 “So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.
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18 It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters; and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim.
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19 Egypt will be a desolation and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
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20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
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21 I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed, for Yahweh dwells in Zion.” |