Joel 3

1 “For, behold, in those days, ‡ Zep 3:19-20Jer 30:3Ezk 39:25Amo 9:14Jer 29:14Psa 85:1Deu 30:3Jer 23:3-8 +11

and in that time,

when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will gather all nations, ‡ Zec 14:2-4Isa 66:16Zep 3:8Ezk 38:22Ezk 35:10Ezk 39:11Jer 25:31Jol 3:12 +16

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,

3 and have cast lots for my people, ‡ Nam 3:10Amo 2:6Oba 1:11Rev 18:132Ch 28:8-9

and have given a boy for a prostitute,

and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

4 “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, ‡ Amo 1:6-10Jer 47:4Isa 34:8Isa 59:18Ezk 25:12-17Isa 23:1-22Ch 21:162Ch 28:17-18 +9

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.

5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, ‡ 2Ch 21:16-172Ki 24:132Ki 12:182Ki 16:82Ki 18:15-161Sa 5:2-52Ki 25:13-17Dan 11:38 +3

and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, ‡ Ezk 27:13Jol 3:3Deu 28:68Jol 3:8Deu 28:32

that you may remove them far from their border.

7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, ‡ Isa 43:5-6Jer 23:82Th 1:6Jer 30:16Jer 30:10Zec 10:6-101Sa 15:33Est 7:10 +14

and will return your repayment on your own head;

8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, ‡ Isa 60:14Job 1:15Isa 14:1-2Jdg 2:14Deu 32:30Ezk 23:42Jdg 4:2Jdg 4:9 +1

and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,

to a faraway nation,

for the LORD has spoken it.”

9 Proclaim this among the nations: ‡ Jer 46:3-4Ezk 38:7Isa 8:9-10Jer 31:10Ezk 21:21-22Isa 34:1Jer 50:2Psa 96:10 +1

“Prepare for war!

Stir up the mighty men.

Let all the warriors draw near.

Let them come up. 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, ‡ Zec 12:8Mic 4:3Isa 2:42Ch 25:8Luk 22:36

and your pruning hooks into spears.

Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’

11 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, ‡ Isa 13:3Zep 3:82Th 1:7Ezk 38:9-18Isa 10:34Isa 37:36Jol 3:2Mic 4:12 +6

and gather yourselves together.”

Cause your mighty ones to come down there, LORD.

12 “Let the nations arouse themselves, ‡ Jol 3:2Isa 2:4Isa 3:13Psa 96:13Psa 98:9Jol 3:14Mic 4:3Psa 7:6 +8

and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;

for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

13 Put in the sickle; ‡ Rev 14:15-20Hos 6:11Mrk 4:29Isa 63:3Jer 51:33Mat 13:39Deu 16:9Gen 18:20 +3

for the harvest is ripe.

Come, tread, for the wine press is full,

the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”

14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! ‡ Isa 34:2-8Jol 3:2Php 3:2Rev 16:14-162Pe 3:7Jol 1:15Jol 2:1Rev 19:19-21 +4

For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

15 The sun and the moon are darkened, ‡ Jol 2:10Jol 2:31Luk 21:25-26Mat 24:29Isa 13:10Rev 6:12-13

and the stars withdraw their shining.

16 The LORD will roar from Zion, ‡ Amo 1:2Jol 2:10-11Jer 25:30-31Hag 2:6Isa 42:13Jer 16:19Pro 18:10Ezk 38:19 +19

and thunder from Jerusalem;

and the heavens and the earth will shake;

but the LORD will be a refuge to his people,

and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

17 “So you will know that I am the LORD, your God, ‡ Jol 2:27Isa 52:1Nam 1:15Isa 4:3Rev 21:27Jer 31:23Jol 3:21Zec 14:20-21 +11

dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.

Then Jerusalem will be holy,

and no strangers will pass through her any more.

18 It will happen in that day, ‡ Ezk 47:1-12Isa 35:6Rev 22:1-2Zec 14:8Amo 9:13-14Isa 30:25Num 25:1Isa 41:17-18 +5

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 the LORD’s house,

and will water the valley of Shittim.

19 Egypt will be a desolation ‡ Isa 19:1-15Jer 51:35Zec 14:18-192Th 1:6Amo 1:11-12Ezk 25:1-17Ezk 35:1-15Isa 11:15 +9

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.

20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, ‡ Ezk 37:25Isa 33:20Amo 9:15

and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

21 I will cleanse their blood ‡ Ezk 36:25Isa 4:4Rev 21:3Ezk 36:29Ezk 48:35Jol 3:17Mat 27:25

that I have not cleansed,

for the LORD dwells in Zion.”