Joel 3

1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, ‡ Zep 3:19-20Jer 30:3Ezk 39:25Amo 9:14Jer 29:14Psa 85:1Deu 30:3Jer 23:3-8 +112 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. ‡ Zec 14:2-4Isa 66:16Zep 3:8Ezk 38:22Ezk 35:10Ezk 39:11Jer 25:31Jol 3:12 +163 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. ‡ Nam 3:10Amo 2:6Oba 1:11Rev 18:132Ch 28:8-9 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; ‡ Amo 1:6-10Jer 47:4Isa 34:8Isa 59:18Ezk 25:12-17Isa 23:1-22Ch 21:162Ch 28:17-18 +95 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: ¹ ‡ 2Ch 21:16-172Ki 24:132Ki 12:182Ki 16:82Ki 18:15-161Sa 5:2-52Ki 25:13-17Dan 11:38 +36 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. ² ‡ Ezk 27:13Jol 3:3Deu 28:68Jol 3:8Deu 28:32 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: ‡ Isa 43:5-6Jer 23:82Th 1:6Jer 30:16Jer 30:10Zec 10:6-101Sa 15:33Est 7:10 +148 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. ‡ Isa 60:14Job 1:15Isa 14:1-2Jdg 2:14Deu 32:30Ezk 23:42Jdg 4:2Jdg 4:9 +1

9 ¶ Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: ³ ‡ Jer 46:3-4Ezk 38:7Isa 8:9-10Jer 31:10Ezk 21:21-22Isa 34:1Jer 50:2Psa 96:10 +110 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. ⁴ ‡ Zec 12:8Mic 4:3Isa 2:42Ch 25:8Luk 22:36 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. ⁵ ‡ Isa 13:3Zep 3:82Th 1:7Ezk 38:9-18Isa 10:34Isa 37:36Jol 3:2Mic 4:12 +612 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. ‡ Jol 3:2Isa 2:4Isa 3:13Psa 96:13Psa 98:9Jol 3:14Mic 4:3Psa 7:6 +813 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. ‡ Rev 14:15-20Hos 6:11Mrk 4:29Isa 63:3Jer 51:33Mat 13:39Deu 16:9Gen 18:20 +314 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. ⁶ ‡ Isa 34:2-8Jol 3:2Php 3:2Rev 16:14-162Pe 3:7Jol 1:15Jol 2:1Rev 19:19-21 +415 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. ‡ Jol 2:10Jol 2:31Luk 21:25-26Mat 24:29Isa 13:10Rev 6:12-13 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. ⁷ ‡ Amo 1:2Jol 2:10-11Jer 25:30-31Hag 2:6Isa 42:13Jer 16:19Pro 18:10Ezk 38:19 +1917 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. ⁸ ‡ Jol 2:27Isa 52:1Nam 1:15Isa 4:3Rev 21:27Jer 31:23Jol 3:21Zec 14:20-21 +11

18 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. ⁹ ‡ Ezk 47:1-12Isa 35:6Rev 22:1-2Zec 14:8Amo 9:13-14Isa 30:25Num 25:1Isa 41:17-18 +519 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. ‡ Isa 19:1-15Jer 51:35Zec 14:18-192Th 1:6Amo 1:11-12Ezk 25:1-17Ezk 35:1-15Isa 11:15 +920 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. ¹⁰ ‡ Ezk 37:25Isa 33:20Amo 9:15 21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. ¹¹ ‡ Ezk 36:25Isa 4:4Rev 21:3Ezk 36:29Ezk 48:35Jol 3:17Mat 27:25