Joel 3:11 Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, LORD!

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, LORD!

English Standard Version
Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.

New American Standard Bible
Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves there. Bring down, O LORD, Your mighty ones.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Come quickly, all you surrounding nations; gather yourselves. Bring down Your warriors there, LORD.

International Standard Version
Hurry and come, all you gentiles! Gather yourselves together!'" "LORD, cause your mighty army to come down.

American Standard Version
Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Break forth, and come, all ye nations, from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down.

Darby Bible Translation
Haste ye and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together. Thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation
Haste, and come in, all ye nations round, And be gathered together, Thither cause to come down, O Jehovah, Thy mighty ones.

Cross References

Isaiah 13:3
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

Ezekiel 38:15
And you shall come from your place out of the north parts, you, and many people with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

Ezekiel 38:16
And you shall come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring you against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:9-17 Here is a challenge to all the enemies of God's people. There is no escaping God's judgments; hardened sinners, in that day of wrath, shall be cut off from all comfort and joy. Most of the prophets foretell the same final victory of the church of God over all that oppose it. To the wicked it will be a terrible day, but to the righteous it will be a joyful day. What cause have those who possess an interest in Christ, to glory in their Strength and their Redeemer! The acceptable year of the Lord, a day of such great favour to some, will be a day of remarkable vengeance to others: let every one that is out of Christ awake, and flee from the wrath to come.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11. Assemble—"Hasten" [Maurer].

thither—to the valley of Jehoshaphat.

thy mighty ones—the warriors who fancy themselves "mighty ones," but who are on that very spot to be overthrown by Jehovah [Maurer]. Compare "the mighty men" (Joe 3:9). Rather, Joel speaks of God's really "mighty ones" in contrast to the self-styled "mighty men" (Joe 3:9; Ps 103:20; Isa 13:3; compare Da 10:13). Auberlen remarks: One prophet supplements the other, for they all prophesied only "in part." What was obscure to one was revealed to the other; what is briefly described by one is more fully so by another. Daniel calls Antichrist a king, and dwells on his worldly conquests; John looks more to his spiritual tyranny, for which reason he adds a second beast, wearing the semblance of spirituality. Antichrist himself is described by Daniel. Isaiah (Isa 29:1-24), Joel (Joe 3:1-21) and Zechariah (Zec 12:1-14:21), describe his army of heathen followers coming up against Jerusalem, but not Antichrist himself.