Joel 3 (NET)

Joel 3:1¹(4:1) For look! In those days and at that time I will return the exiles to Judah and Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:2²Then I will gather all the nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I will enter into judgment against them there concerning my people Israel who are my inheritance, whom they scattered among the nations. They partitioned my land,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:3³and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:4⁴Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon? Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? If you are, I will very quickly repay you for what you have done!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:5⁵For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:6⁶You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:7⁷Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them. I will repay you for what you have done!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:8⁸I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah. They will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away. Indeed, the Lord has spoken.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:9⁹Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for a holy war! Call out the warriors! Let all these fighting men approach and attack!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:10¹⁰Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I too am a warrior!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:11¹¹Lend your aid and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves to that place.” Bring down, O Lord, your warriors!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:12¹²“Let the nations be roused and let them go up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit in judgment on all the surrounding nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:13¹³Rush forth with the sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Come, stomp the grapes, for the winepress is full! The vats overflow. Indeed, their evil is great!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:14¹⁴Crowds, great crowds are in the Valley of Decision, for the day of the Lord is near in the Valley of Decision!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:15¹⁵The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:16¹⁶The Lord roars from Zion; from Jerusalem his voice bellows out. The heavens and the earth shake. But the Lord is a refuge for his people; he is a stronghold for the citizens of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:17¹⁷“You will be convinced that I the Lord am your God, dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy— conquering armies will no longer pass through it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:18¹⁸“On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the Lord, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:19¹⁹Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:20²⁰But Judah will reside securely forever, and Jerusalem will be secure from one generation to the next.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Joel 3:21²¹I will avenge their blood that I had not previously acquitted. It is the Lord who dwells in Zion!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s