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          DASV: Joel 3    

1 For in those days and at that time,
     I will bring back the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will gather all nations,
     and will bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
I will execute judgment on them there
     for my people and for my inheritance Israel,
            whom they have scattered among the nations.
      They have divided up my land,
3 and have cast lots for my people.
      They have traded a boy for a prostitute,
     and sold a girl for wine so that they could drink.

4 What do you have against me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions
of Philistia? If you are repaying me for something, swiftly
and speedily, I will pay back your deeds on your own head.
5 For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried
off my precious treasures into your temples.
6 You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the
Greeks, removing them far from their border.
7 Look, I will rouse them out of the place to which you have
sold them, and will pay back on your head what you have done.
8 I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of
the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the people
of the Sabaeans, to a nation far off, for the LORD has spoken it.

9 Proclaim this among the nations:
     Prepare for war,
            rouse the mighty men.
     Let all the soldiers draw near,
            let them come up.
10 Beat your plowshares into swords,
     and your pruning hooks into spears.
      Let the weak say,
     "I am strong."
11 Come quickly, all you surrounding nations,
     gather yourselves together there.

      Bring down your warriors, O LORD.

12 Let the nations rouse themselves,
     and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
      for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 Put in the sickle,
           for the harvest is ripe.
     Come, tread grapes for the winepress is full.
     The vats overflow,
            for their wickedness is great.

14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
      For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon will be darkened,
     and the stars will stop shining.
16 The LORD will roar from Zion,
     and utter his voice from Jerusalem;
            the heavens and the earth will shake.
      The LORD will be a refuge to his people,
           and a stronghold to the people of Israel.

17 Then you will know that I am the LORD your God,
           dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.
      Then Jerusalem will be holy,
           and no strangers will ever again pass through.
18 In that day, the mountains will drip with sweet wine,
     and the hills will flow with milk,
     and all the brooks of Judah will flow with water.
      A spring will flow out of the house of the LORD,
           and will water the Valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt will be a desolation,
     and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,
      because of the violence done to the people of Judah,
     in whose land they shed innocent blood.
20 Judah will be inhabited forever,
     and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 I will avenge their blood;
     I will not acquit the guilty,
            for the LORD dwells in Zion.

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