Joel 3:1-16
The LORD Judges the Nations

1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

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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 Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

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3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

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4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

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5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

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6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

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7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

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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].

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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:

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10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong.

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11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.

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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.

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13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness [is] great.

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14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD [is] near in the valley of decision.

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15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

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16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD [will be] the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

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