Joel 3

¹Joel 3:1. “Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,²Joel 3:2. I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.³Joel 3:3. They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.⁴Joel 3:4. Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.⁵Joel 3:5. For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.⁶Joel 3:6. You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.⁷Joel 3:7. Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.⁸Joel 3:8. I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.⁹Joel 3:9. Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!¹⁰Joel 3:10. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’¹¹Joel 3:11. Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves. Bring down Your mighty ones, O LORD.¹²Joel 3:12. Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.¹³Joel 3:13. Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.¹⁴Joel 3:14. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.¹⁵Joel 3:15. The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.¹⁶Joel 3:16. The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.

¹⁷Joel 3:17. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.¹⁸Joel 3:18. And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.¹⁹Joel 3:19. Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.²⁰Joel 3:20. But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.²¹Joel 3:21. For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.