Joel 3
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Joel 3
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Jer 30.3; Ezek 38.14 # 3.1 4.1 in Heb For then, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, 2#Isa 66.16; Ezek 34.6; 35.10; 36.1–5I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations. They have divided my land 3#Ob 11; Nah 3.10and cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes and sold girls for wine and drunk it down.
4 #
Ezek 25.12–17; Am 1.9, 10 What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads swiftly and speedily. 5For you have taken my silver and my gold and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.#3.5 Or palaces 6You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border. 7#Isa 43.5, 6; Jer 23.8But now I will rouse them to leave the places to which you have sold them, and I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads. 8#Isa 14.2; 60.14; Jer 6.20; Ezek 23.42I 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 nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.
Judgment in the Valley of Jehoshaphat
9Proclaim this among the nations:
Consecrate yourselves for war;
stir up the warriors.
Let all the soldiers draw near;
let them come up.
10 #
Isa 2.4; Mic 4.3; Zech 12.8 Beat your plowshares into swords
and your pruning hooks into spears;
let the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
11 #
Isa 13.3; Ezek 38.15, 16 Come quickly,#3.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain
all you nations all around;
gather yourselves there.
Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
12 #
Isa 2.4; 3.13 Let the nations rouse themselves
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat,
for there I will sit to judge
all the neighboring nations.
13 #
Isa 63.3; Mt 13.39; Rev 14.15, 19 Put in the sickle,
for the harvest is ripe.
Go in, tread,
for the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
for their wickedness is great.
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Isa 34.2–8; Joel 1.15; 2.1 Multitudes, multitudes,
in the valley of decision!
For the day of the Lord is near
in the valley of decision.
15The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
16 #
Jer 17.17; Joel 2.11; Am 1.2; Hag 2.6 The Lord roars from Zion
and utters his voice from Jerusalem,
and the heavens and the earth shake.
But the Lord is a refuge for his people,
a stronghold for the people of Israel.
The Glorious Future of Judah
17 #
v 21
; Isa 52.1; Ezek 20.40; Ob 17; Nah 1.15So you shall know that I, the Lord your God,
dwell in Zion, my holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
and strangers shall never again pass through it.
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Isa 30.25; 35.6; Ezek 47.1–12; Am 9.13; Rev 22.1 In that day
the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the streambeds of Judah
shall flow with water;
a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
and water the Wadi Shittim.
19 #
Ob 10
Egypt shall become a desolation
and Edom a desolate wilderness,
because of the violence done to the people of Judah,
in whose land they have shed innocent blood.
20 #
Ezek 37.25; Am 9.15 But Judah shall be inhabited forever
and Jerusalem to all generations.
21 #
v 17
; Ezek 36.25I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty,#3.21 Gk Syr: Heb I will hold innocent their blood that I have not held innocent
for the Lord dwells in Zion.
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