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$Title{Old Testament, The
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$Date{1885}
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Title: Old Testament, The
Book: Joel
Author: Various
Date: 1885
Chapter 3
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall ^2 bring back
the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 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, 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. Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all
the regions of Philistia? ^3 will ye render me a recompense? and if ye
recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your ^4 recompense upon your
own head. Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried
into your temples my goodly precious things, and have sold the children of
Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may
remove them far from their border; behold, I will stir them up out of the
place whither ye have sold them, and will return your ^4 recompense upon your
own head; 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 Jehovah hath spoken it.
[Footnote 2: Or, return to]
[Footnote 3: Or, will ye repay a deed of mine, or will ye do aught unto me?
swiftly &c.]
[Footnote 4: Or, deed]
Proclaim ye this among the nations; ^5 prepare war; stir up the mighty
men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares
into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am
strong. ^6 Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather
yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, Jehovah. Let
the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of ^7 Jehoshaphat;
for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about. Put ye in the
sickle; for the ^8 harvest is ripe: come, ^9 tread ye; for the winepress is
full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
[Footnote 5: Heb. sanctify.]
[Footnote 6: Or, Assemble yourselves]
[Footnote 7: That is, Jehovah judgeth.]
[Footnote 8: Or, vintage]
[Footnote 9: Or, get you down]
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Jehovah
is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the
stars withdraw their shining. And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his
voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but Jehovah
will be a refuge unto his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy
mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass
through her any more.
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
Jehovah, and shall water ^1 the valley of Shittim. 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.
But Judah shall ^2 abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to
generation. And I will ^3 cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for
Jehovah dwelleth in Zion.
[Footnote 1: That is, the valley of acacias.]
[Footnote 2: Or, be inhabited]
[Footnote 3: Or, hold as innocent]