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Joel 3 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:1 - (LXX 4:1) For, behold, in those days and at that time, when I shall have turned the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:2 - (LXX 4:2) I will also gather all the [fn]Gentiles, and bring them down to the valley of Josaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and my heritage Israel, who have been dispersed among the Gentiles; and these Gentiles have divided my land,
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:3 - (LXX 4:3) and cast lots over my people, and have given their boys to harlots, and sold their girls for wine, and have drunk.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:4 - (LXX 4:4) And what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the [fn]Gentiles? do ye render me a recompense? or do ye bear malice against me? quickly and speedily will I return your recompense on your own heads:
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:5 - (LXX 4:5) because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and ye have brought my choice ornaments into your temples;
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:6 - (LXX 4:6) and ye have sold the children of Juda and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that ye might expel them from their coasts.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:7 - (LXX 4:7) Therefore, behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:8 - (LXX 4:8) And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them into captivity to a far distant nation: for the Lord has spoken it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:9 - (LXX 4:9) Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; [fn]declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all ye men of war.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:10 - (LXX 4:10) Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your sickles into [fn]spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:11 - (LXX 4:11) Gather yourselves together, and go in, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves there: let the [fn]timid become a warrior.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:12 - (LXX 4:12) Let them be aroused, let all the nations go up to the valley of Josaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the Gentiles round about.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:13 - (LXX 4:13) Bring forth the sickles, for the vintage is come: go in, tread the grapes, for the press is full: cause the vats to overflow; for their wickedness is multiplied.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:14 - (LXX 4:14) Noises have resounded in the valley of judgment: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:15 - (LXX 4:15) The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:16 - (LXX 4:16) And the Lord shall cry out of Sion, and shall utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heaven and the earth shall be shaken, but the Lord shall spare his people, and shall strengthen the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:17 - (LXX 4:17) And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her any more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:18 - (LXX 4:18) And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the [fn]fountains of Juda shall flow with water, and a fountain shall go forth of the house of the Lord, and water the valley of flags.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:19 - (LXX 4:19) Egypt shall be a desolation, and Idumea shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Juda, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:20 - (LXX 4:20) But Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:21 - (LXX 4:21) And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Sion.
BES Footnotes
Or, nations. See Mat. 25:31.
ἀλλοφυλων, usually Philistines.
Gr. sanctify.
Or, daggers.
Gr. meek.
See chap 1:20.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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