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Bookmark this verse Joel 3
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For behold, in those◦ days, and in that◦ time, when▵ I shall return the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
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then I will bring··together all the nations, and will bring· them ·down to▵ the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will judge there with them on··account··of My people and My heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered◦ among◦ the nations, and have parted My land.
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And they have cast▵ lots for◦ My people, and have given a boy◦ for a harlot, and sold a girl◦ for wine, that they might drink.
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And also, what are you◦ to Me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the boundaries of Philistia? Will you◦ repay Me a recompense? And if you◦ recompense on Me, swiftly and hastily will I return your recompense on◦ your own head,
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that you have taken My silver and My gold, and My best desired things you have brought into▵ your temples;
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and the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem you have sold to the sons of the Greeks, so··that they will be··far from their border.
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Behold, I will stir· them ·up out··of the place into which you have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head.
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And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to▵ a nation far··off; for Jehovah has spoken it.
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Proclaim ye this among◦ the nations: Prepare war, stir··up the mighty··men, let all the men◦ of war approach; let them come··up;
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beat your mattocks into◦ swords, and your pruning··hooks into◦ lances; let him who is overcome say, I◦ am mighty.
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Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye nations, and bring· yourselves ·together all around; thither cause Thy mighty ones to set··down, O Jehovah.
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Let the nations be stirred··up, and come··up to▵ the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations all around.
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Send··out the sickle, for the harvest has ripened; come, go··down, for the wine··vat◦ is··full; the winepresses spill··over◦, for much is their evil.
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Multitudes◦, multitudes◦ in the valley of decision; for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
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The sun and the moon shall be blackened, and the stars shall gather··in their brightness.
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Jehovah also shall roar from Zion, and give forth His voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall quake; but Jehovah will be the protection for His people, and the stronghold of the sons of Israel.
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And you shall know that I◦ am Jehovah your God inhabiting Zion, the mountain of My holiness; and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass··through her any··more.
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And it shall be, in that◦ day, that the mountains shall drop··down new··wine, and the hills shall flow1 with milk, and all the channels of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall go··out from the house of Jehovah, and shall water◦ the brook of Shittim.
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Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the sons of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
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But Judah shall dwell to eternity, and Jerusalem to generation and generation.
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And I will render··innocent their blood that I have not rendered··innocent; and Jehovah inhabits Zion.
1literally, “go” or “walk” (see AC 2702:7), twice in this verse
