Joel 3:1-21 CEB

[1] Truly, in those days and in that time, I will bring back to Judah and Jerusalem those who were sent away. [2] I will gather all the nations, and I will bring them to the Jehoshaphat Valley. There I will enter into judgment with them in support of my people and my possession, Israel, which they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land, [3] and have cast lots for my people. They have traded boys for prostitutes, and sold girls for wine, which they drank down. [4] What are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, then in a flash I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads. [5] You have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. [6] You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border. [7] But now I am calling them from the places where you have sold them, and I will repay you for your deeds. [8] I will sell your sons and your daughters as a possession of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away; for the LORD has spoken. [9] Announce this among the nations: Prepare a holy war, wake up the warriors; let all the soldiers draw near, let them come up! [10] Beat the iron tips of your plows into swords and your pruning tools into spears; let the weakling say, “I am mighty.” [11] Come quickly, all you surrounding nations; gather yourselves there; bring your mighty ones, LORD. [12] Let the nations prepare themselves, and come up to the Jehoshaphat Valley; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. [13] Cut with the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go and crush grapes, for the winepress is full. The jars overflow with wine, for their wickedness is great. [14] Crowd after crowd fills the valley of judgment, for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of judgment. [15] The sun and the moon are darkened; the stars have ceased shining. [16] The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is a refuge for his people, a shelter for the people of Israel. [17] So you will know that I am the LORD your God, settle down in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and never again will strangers pass through it. [18] In that day the mountains will drip sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah will flow with water; a spring will come forth from the LORD’s house and water the Shittim Valley. [19] Egypt will become desolate and Edom a desolate wilderness. This is because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood. [20] But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem for all generations. [21] I will forgive their bloodguilt, which I had not forgiven. I will act on their account; I will not pardon the guilty. The LORD dwells in Zion.