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Joel 3 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 3
God Judges the Nations
Judgment on the Nations
1 “For behold, in those days and at that time,
​​When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 ​​I will also gather all nations,
​​And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
​​And I will enter into judgment with them there
​​On account of My people, My heritage Israel,
​​Whom they have scattered among the nations;
​​They have also divided up My land.
3 ​​They have cast lots for My people,
​​Have given a boy as payment for a harlot,
​​And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
​
4 ​​“Indeed, what have you to do with Me,
​​O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia?
​​Will you retaliate against Me?
​​But if you retaliate against Me,
​​Swiftly and speedily I will return your retaliation upon your own head;
5 ​​Because you have taken My silver and My gold,
​​And have carried into your temples My prized possessions.
6 ​​Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem
​​You have sold to the Greeks,
​​That you may remove them far from their borders.
​
7 ​​“Behold, I will raise them
​​Out of the place to which you have sold them,
​​And will return your retaliation upon your own head.
8 ​​I will sell your sons and your daughters
​​Into the hand of the people of Judah,
​​And they will sell them to the Sabeans,[fn]
​​To a people far off;
​​For the LORD has spoken.”
​
9 ​​Proclaim this among the nations:
​​“Prepare for 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 pruning hooks into spears;
​​Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ ”
11 ​​Assemble and come, all you nations,
​​And gather together all around.
​​Cause Your mighty ones to go down there, O LORD.
​
12 ​​“Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
​​For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 ​​Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
​​Come, go down;
​​For the winepress is full,
​​The vats 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 moon will grow dark,
​​And the stars will diminish their brightness.
16 ​​The LORD also will roar from Zion,
​​And utter His voice from Jerusalem;
​​The heavens and earth will shake;
​​But the LORD will be a shelter for His people,
​​And the strength of the children of Israel.
​
17 ​​“So you shall know that I am the LORD your God,
​​Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain.
​​Then Jerusalem shall be holy,
​​And no aliens shall ever pass through her again.”
​
God Blesses His People
18 ​​And it will come to pass in that day
​​That the mountains shall drip with new wine,
​​The hills shall flow with milk,
​​And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water;
​​A fountain shall flow from the house of the LORD
​​And water the Valley of Acacias.
​
19 ​​“Egypt shall be a desolation,
​​And Edom a desolate wilderness,
​​Because of violence against the people of Judah,
​​For they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 ​​But Judah shall abide forever,
​​And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 ​​For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted;
​​For the LORD dwells in Zion.”
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NKJV Footnotes
Literally Shebaites (compare Isaiah 60:6 and Ezekiel 27:22)
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