Joel 3
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Chapter 3
The Lord judges the nations
1‘Judah and Jerusalem were once great.
One day, at that time, I will make them great again.
2Then I will bring all the nations together.
I will bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. #3:2 The Valley of Jehoshaphat means a place where God judged people.
There I will judge against them
because of what they did to my children, my people Israel.
Those nations pushed my people out into other countries.
They broke up my land and each took pieces.
3They played games to win my people.
They gave boys to buy women to have sex with them.
They sold girls so that they could get wine to drink.
4You people in Tyre, Sidon, and of all the land of the people called Philistines, listen. You cannot say that I have done anything wrong. You want to punish me. If you do this, I will soon do the same to you. 5You took my silver and my gold, and you put all my riches in your temples. 6You sold the people from Judah and Jerusalem to the Greek people. You wanted to send them a long way from their own country. 7Now I will bring them back from the places to which you sold them. I will do to you what you have done to them. 8I will sell your sons and daughters to the people in Judah. And they will sell them to the people called Sabeans, who live far away. I, the Lord, have spoken.’
9Tell this news to the people in all the countries:
Get ready for war!
Shout to the soldiers.
Make all the men who fight get ready to attack.
10Make your ploughs into swords.
Make the tools that you use on the farm into spears.
The weak man must say, ‘I am strong!’
11Come quickly, you people who live round Israel.
And get together in the valley.
Lord, send down your army to attack them.
12‘Wake up the people in all the countries!
Bring them into the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
I will sit there to judge the people from every place.
13Now is the time to cut down the fruits.
They are ready for you to bring them in.
Walk all over the grapes.
The winepress is full of them.
They come over the top.
The people in all countries have done so many bad things.’
14Many nations are in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
It is there that the day of the Lord will soon come.
15The sun and moon will become dark.
The stars will not shine.
16The Lord will shout from Zion.
He will make a great noise from Jerusalem.
The earth and the sky will move about.
But the Lord will keep his people safe.
God will bless his people
17‘Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.
You will know that I live in Zion, my holy hill.
Jerusalem will be holy.
Strangers will never take it again.
18In that day new wine will run from the mountains.
And milk will run from the hills.
All the valleys of Judah will have rivers of water.
Water will come from the house of the Lord
and it will water the Valley of Acacias.
19But Egypt will be empty,
and Edom will become a desert.
They attacked the people in Judah,
and they killed them for no good reason.
20My people will always live in Jerusalem and Judah.
21I will forgive all the wrong things that they have done.’
The Lord has made his home in Zion!
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