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title: Joel 3
slug: kjv/joel-3
createdAt: 2024-08-25T03:01:15.467Z
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**1 **For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

**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.

**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.

**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; **5 **Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: **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. **7 **Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: **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*.

**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:

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

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

**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.

**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.

**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 shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

**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.

**17 **So shall ye know that I *am* the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

**18 **And it shall come to pass in that day, *that* the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.

**19 **Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence *against* the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

**20 **But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

**21 **For I will cleanse their blood *that* I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.