Joel Chapter 3

• Joel 3:1
  Joel.
• Joel 3:2
  “For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
• Joel 3:3
  I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for m...
• Joel 3:4
  and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
• Joel 3:5
  “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily re...
• Joel 3:6
  Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
• Joel 3:7
  and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.
• Joel 3:8
  Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;
• Joel 3:9
  and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation...
• Joel 3:10
  Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.
• Joel 3:11
  Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
• Joel 3:12
  Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.” Cause your mighty ones to come down there, LORD.
• Joel 3:13
  “Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
• Joel 3:14
  Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”
• Joel 3:15
  Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
• Joel 3:16
  The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
• Joel 3:17
  The LORD will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but the LORD will be a refuge to his people, and a...
• Joel 3:18
  “So you will know that I am the LORD, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through he...
• Joel 3:19
  It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters...
• Joel 3:20
  Egypt will be a desolation and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blo...
• Joel 3:21
  But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
• Joel 3:22
  I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed, for the LORD dwells in Zion.”