Joel Chapter 3
3:1 | For, behold, in those ![]() ![]() ![]() |
3:2 | I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and [for] my heritage ![]() |
3:3 | And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for ![]() ![]() |
3:4 | Yea, and what have ye to ![]() |
3:5 | Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: |
3:6 | The children also of Judah and the children of ![]() |
3:7 | Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head: |
3:8 | And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [it]. |
3:9 | Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: |
3:10 | Beat your plowshares into ![]() |
3:11 | Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. |
3:12 | Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. |
3:13 | Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness [is] great. |
3:14 | Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the ![]() |
3:15 | The ![]() ![]() |
3:16 | The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from ![]() ![]() ![]() |
3:17 | So shall ye know that I [am] the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall ![]() |
3:18 | And it shall come to pass in that ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
3:19 | Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence [against] the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. |
3:20 | But Judah shall dwell for ever, and ![]() ![]() ![]() |
3:21 | For I will cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. |