Joel 3:1-12 ▼

1 For see, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment with them on behalf of my people, my heritage, Israel; Because they scattered them among the nations, they divided up my land.

3 For my people they cast lots, trading a young boy for the price of a prostitute, exchanging a young girl for the wine they drank.

4 Moreover, what are you doing to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are, I will very quickly turn your deeds back upon your own head.

5 You took my silver and my gold and brought my priceless treasures into your temples!

6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, taking them far from their own country!

7 Look! I am rousing them from the place to which you sold them, and I will turn your deeds back upon your own head.

8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the Judahites who will sell them to the Sabeans, a distant nation. The LORD has spoken!

9 Announce this to the nations: Proclaim a holy war! Alert the warriors! Let all the soldiers report and march!

10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning knives into spears; let the weakling boast, “I am a warrior!”

11 Hurry and come, all you neighboring peoples, assemble there! Bring down, LORD, your warriors!

12 Let the nations rouse themselves and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit in judgment upon all the neighboring nations.