Joel 3:1-21 CSB

[1] Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, [2] I will gather all the nations and take them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I will enter into judgment with them there because of my people, my inheritance Israel. The nations have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries and divided up my land. [3] They cast lots for my people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink. [4] And also: Tyre, Sidon, and all the territories of Philistia-what are you to me? Are you paying me back or trying to get even with me? I will quickly bring retribution on your heads. [5] For you took my silver and gold and carried my finest treasures to your temples. [6] You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks to remove them far from their own territory. [7] Look, I am about to rouse them up from the place where you sold them; I will bring retribution on your heads. [8] I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation, for the LORD has spoken. [9] Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for holy war; rouse the warriors; let all the men of war advance and attack! [10] Beat your plows into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Let even the weakling say, "I am a warrior." [11] Come quickly, all you surrounding nations; gather yourselves. Bring down your warriors there, LORD. [12] Let the nations be roused and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the surrounding nations. [13] Swing the sickle because the harvest is ripe. Come and trample the grapes because the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because the wickedness of the nations is extreme. [14] Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. [15] The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will cease their shining. [16] The LORD will roar from Zion and make his voice heard from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will shake. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the Israelites. [17] Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and foreigners will never overrun it again. [18] In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will flow with water, and a spring will issue from the LORD's house, watering the Valley of Acacias. [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. [20] But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. [21] I will pardon their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, for the LORD dwells in Zion.

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