Noyes - Joel - 3

3:1  For behold, in those days and at that time, When I shall bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,

3:2  I will assemble all the nations, And will bring them down it to the valley of Jehoshaphat, And there will I contend with them for my people and inheritance, Israel; Because they scattered them among the nations, And divided my land among themselves.

3:3  Yea, they cast lots for my people, And gave a boy for a harlot, And sold a damsel for wine to drink.

3:4  What have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Sidon, And all the borders of Philistia? Will ye retaliate on me? Or will ye do anything against me? Swiftly and speedily will I bring back your doings upon your own head.

3:5  Ye have taken my silver and my gold, And have carried into your palaces my precious, goodly things;

3:6  The sons also of Judah, and the sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the Grecians, That ye might remove them far from their border.

3:7  Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, And I will return your injury upon your own head;

3:8  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 afar off; For Jehovah hath spoken it.

3:9  Proclaim ye this among the nations: "Prepare war! Stir up the mighty ones! Let all the warriors draw near; let them come up!"

3:10  Beat your ploughshares into swords, And your pruning-hooks into spears; Let the weak say, I am strong!

3:11  Assemble yourselves and come, all ye nations round about; Gather yourselves together! Thither, O Jehovah, bring down thy mighty ones!

3:12  Let the nations rise and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat! For there will I sit to judge all the nations around.

3:13  Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; Come and tread, for the wine-press is full; The vats overflow; For their wickedness is great!

3:14  The multitudes, the multitudes in the valley of judgment! For the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of judgment.

3:15  The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining.

3:16  Jehovah also will roar from Zion, And utter his voice from Jerusalem; The heavens and the earth shall shake. But Jehovah will be a refuge to his people! A strong-hold to the sons of Israel.

3:17  Then shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, Dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; And Jerusalem shall be holy; Strangers shall pass through her no more.

3:18  In that day shall the mountains drop down new wine, And the hills shall flow with milk. And all the streams of Judah shall flow with water. A fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, That shall water the valley of Shittim.

3:19  Egypt shall be a waste, And Edom a desolate wilderness, For their violence against the sons of Judah; For they shed innocent blood in their land.

3:20  But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation.

3:21  And I will avenge their blood, which I have not avenged, And Jehovah will dwell upon Zion.