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Joel 3:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

But I'll make the people of Judah determined to come home, and what happened to them will happen to you.

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Straight away, Haman was hanged on the tower he had built to hang Mordecai, and the king calmed down.

He will give a signal to the nations, and he will bring together the refugees from Judah and Israel, who have been scattered all over the earth.

Then my people will return from distant lands in the north and the west and from the city of Syene.

Do you hear that noise in the city and those shouts coming from the temple? It is the LORD shouting as he punishes his enemies.

Instead, you will call me the Living God who rescued you from the land in the north and from all the other countries where I had forced you to go. And you will once again live in your own land.

Israel, you belong to me, so don't be afraid. You deserved to be punished; that's why I scattered you in distant nations. But I am with you, and some day I will destroy those nations. Then I will bring you and your descendants back to your land, where I will protect you and give you peace. Then your fears will be gone. I, the LORD, have spoken.

But if your enemies try to rob or destroy you, I will rob and destroy them, and they will be led as captives to foreign lands.

I, the LORD, will bring my people back from Babylonia and everywhere else on earth. The blind and the lame will be there. Expectant mothers and women about to give birth will come and be part of that great crowd.

I am angry with the people of Jerusalem, and I will scatter them in foreign countries. But some day I will bring them back here and let them live in safety.

I will gather you from the foreign nations and bring you home.

because in a few years, I will command you to invade Israel, a country that was ruined by war. It was deserted for a long time, but its people have returned from the foreign nations where they once lived. The Israelites now live in peace in the mountains of their own land.

You people of Tyre and Sidon and you Philistines, why are you doing this? Are you trying to get even with me? I'll strike back before you know what's happened.

I will use Judah as my bow and Israel as my arrow. I will take the people of Zion as my sword and attack the Greeks.

God will be as hard on you as you are on others! He will treat you exactly as you treat them.

It is only right for God to punish everyone who is causing you trouble,

Do this, because on the day of judgment there will be no pity for those who have not had pity on others. But even in judgment, God is merciful!

If you are doomed to be captured, you will be captured. If you are doomed to be killed by a sword, you will be killed by a sword. This means that God's people must learn to endure and be faithful!

They poured out the blood of your people and your prophets. So you gave them blood to drink, as they deserve!”

because his judgments are honest and fair. That filthy prostitute ruined the earth with shameful deeds. But God has judged her and made her pay the price for murdering his servants.”

and he said, “I've cut off the thumbs and big toes of seventy kings and made those kings crawl around under my table for scraps of food. Now God is paying me back.” The army of Judah took the king of Bezek along with them to Jerusalem, where he died.

But Samuel said, “Agag, you have snatched children from their mothers' arms and killed them. Now your mother will be without children.” Then Samuel chopped Agag to pieces at the place of worship in Gilgal.




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