Joel 4
1 For look, in those days and at that time, I will restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem.
2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment with them on behalf of my people and my inheritance, Israel, whom they scattered among the nations; they divided up my land.
3 They cast lots for my people; they traded a boy for a prostitute, sold a girl for wine, and drank it.
4 And what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something? If you are repaying me, I will swiftly and without delay bring your repayment back on your own heads.
5 You took my silver and my gold, and carried my finest treasures into your temples.
6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to remove them far from their own territory.
7 Look, I am going to rouse them from the place where you sold them, and I will bring your repayment back on your own heads.
8 I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken.
9 Proclaim this among the nations: consecrate a war! Wake the warriors! Let all the men of war draw near and come up.
10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”
11 Hurry and come, all you nations round about; gather there. Bring down your warriors there, LORD!
12 Let the nations rise and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations round about.
13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread the grapes, for the winepress is full; the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the Valley of Decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the Valley of Decision.
15 The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars withdraw their brightness.
16 The LORD roars from Zion and raises his voice from Jerusalem; the heavens and the earth tremble. But the LORD is a refuge for his people and a stronghold for the people of Israel.
17 Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and strangers will never again pass through it.
18 On that day, the mountains will drip with sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, and all the streams of Judah will flow with water. A spring will come out from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom a barren wilderness, because of the violence against the people of Judah, for they shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 I will acquit their blood, which I had not yet acquitted; the LORD dwells in Zion.
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