Joe3:1 For then, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
Joe3:2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations. They have divided my land,
Joe3:3 and cast lots for my people, and traded boys for prostitutes, and sold girls for wine, and drunk it down.
Joe3:4 What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads swiftly and speedily.
Joe3:5 For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
Joe3:6 You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.
Joe3:7 But now I will rouse them to leave the places to which you have sold them, and I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads.
Joe3:8 I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away; for the LORD has spoken.
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Joe3:10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, "I am a warrior."
Joe3:11 Come quickly, all you nations all around, gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.
Joe3:12 Let the nations rouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the neighboring nations.
Joe3:13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the wine press is full. The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.
Joe3:14 Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Joe3:15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
Joe3:16 The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the LORD is a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
Joe3:17 So you shall know that I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
Joe3:18 In that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water; a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Wadi Shittim.
Joe3:19 Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.
Joe3:20 But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
Joe3:21 I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty, for the LORD dwells in Zion.