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Joel 3:1-21 — Judgment on the Nations; Blessing for Israel

Joel.3.1-21

¹“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, ²I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them on behalf of my people and my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up my land. ³They have cast lots for my people; they have traded a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine to drink. ⁴“Moreover, what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense on your own heads. ⁵For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples. ⁶You have sold the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem to the Greeks , in order to remove them far from their own borders. ⁷Behold, I will rouse them from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads. ⁸I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation; for Yahweh has spoken.” ⁹Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the mighty men! Let all the men of war draw near; let them advance. ¹⁰Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, ‘I am a warrior!’ ¹¹Come quickly , all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together. Bring down your mighty ones there, O Yahweh! ¹²“Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. ¹³Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full; the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.” ¹⁴Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision. ¹⁵The sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars withdraw their shining. ¹⁶Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth will shake. But Yahweh will be a refuge for his people, and a stronghold for the people of Israel. ¹⁷“So you will know that I am Yahweh your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and foreigners will pass through her no more. ¹⁸And it will happen in that day, that the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the house of Yahweh, and water the Valley of Shittim. ¹⁹Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom will become a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood. ²⁰But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. ²¹And I will avenge their blood , which I have not yet avenged; for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”

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4/11/2026

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