Joel 3:1-12 ▼

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

2 And I gathered all nations, and I brought them down to the valley of Jehoshophat, and I contended with them there for my people and mine inheritance Israel whom they scattered among the nations, and they divided the land.

3 And for my people they cast the lot: and they will give the boy for a harlot, and they sold the girl for wine; and they will drink.

4 And also what are ye to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the circuits of Philistia? do ye requite to me a recompense? and if ye recompense to me, swiftly and speedily I will turn back your recompense upon your head;

5 For ye took my silver and my gold, and my delights of good things ye brought to your temples.

6 And the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem ye sold to the sons of the Grecians, in order to remove them far off from their border.

7 Behold me raising them up from the place where ye sold them there, and I turned back your recompense upon your head:

8 And I sold your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they sold them to the Sabeans to a nation far off: for Jehovah spake.

9 Call ye this among the nations: Consecrate war; rouse up the strong ones, they shall draw near, all the men of war shall come up.

10 Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears: the weak shall say, I am strong.

11 Hasten and come all ye nations from round about, and be ye gathered together: there lead down, O Jehovah, thy strong ones.

12 The nations shall be roused and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will sit to judge all the nations from round about.