Jubilee2000 - Joel - 3

3:1  For, behold, in those days and in that time when I shall cause the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem to end,

3:2  I will gather together all the Gentiles, and will cause them to descend into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and there I will enter into judgment with them because of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

3:3  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.

3:4  Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily I will return your recompense upon your own head;

3:5  because ye have taken my silver and my gold and have carried into your temples my precious and beautiful things

3:6  and ye have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem unto the Grecians that ye might remove them far from their border.

3:7  Behold, I will raise them out of the place where ye have sold them and will return your recompense upon your own head:

3:8  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 people far off: for the LORD has spoken [it].

3:9  Proclaim this among the Gentiles: Prepare war; wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

3:10  beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears; let the weak say, I [am] strong.

3:11  Assemble yourselves and come, all ye Gentiles, and gather yourselves together round about; there cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.

3:12  Let the Gentiles be wakened and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat for there I will sit to judge all the Gentiles round about.

3:13  Put in the sickle for the harvest is ripe; come, go down for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness [is] great.

3:14  Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

3:15  The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

3:16  The LORD also shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but the LORD [will be] the hope of his people and the strength of the sons of Israel.

3:17  So shall ye know that I [am]the LORD your God, that I inhabit Zion, the mountain of my holiness: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more.

3:18  And it shall come to pass in that day [that] the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD and shall water the valley of Shittim.

3:19  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.

3:20  But Judah shall dwell for ever; and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

3:21  For I will cleanse the blood [of those whom] I have not cleansed; for the LORD dwells in Zion.: