Joel 3
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For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity
of Judah and Jerusalem,
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I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;
and I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel,
whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land,
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and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl
for wine, that they may drink.
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Yea, and what are you to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia?
will you render me a recompense? and if you recompense me, swiftly and speedily will
I return your recompense upon your own head.
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Seeing that as you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples
my goodly precious things,
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and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the
Grecians, that you may remove them far from their border;
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behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return
your recompense upon your own head;
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and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah,
and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for YHWH has spoken
it.
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Proclaim you this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all
the men of war draw near, let them come up.
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Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak
say, I am strong.
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Haste you, and come, all you nations round about, and gather yourselves together:
there cause your mighty ones to come down, O YHWH.
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Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there
will I sit to judge all the nations round about.
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Put you in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, tread you; for the wine press
is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of YHWH is near in the
valley of decision.
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The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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And YHWH will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens
and the earth shall shake: but YHWH will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold
to the children of Israel.
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So shall you know that I am YHWH your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then
shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters;
and a fountain shall come forth from the house of YHWH, and shall water the valley
of Shittim.
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Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence
done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
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But Judah shall abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
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And I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for YHWH dwells in Zion.