Joel 3 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ “For look, in those days and at that time, when I turn back the captivity of Yehuḏ

² then I shall gather all gentiles, and bring them down to the Valley of Yehoshaphat. And I shall enter into judgment with them there for My people, My inheritance Yisra’ĕ

³ “And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a young man for a whore, and sold a girl for wine, and drank it.

⁴ “And also, what are you to Me, O Tsor and Tsiḏ

⁵ “For you have taken My silver and My gold, and brought My treasures into your temples,

⁶ and the people of Yehuḏ

⁷ “See, I am stirring them up out of the place to which you have sold them, and I shall return on your own head what you have done,

⁸ and shall sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Yehuḏ

⁹ Proclaim this among the gentiles, “Prepare for battle! Wake up the mighty men, let all the men of battle draw near, let them come up.

¹⁰ “Beat your ploughshares into swords and your pruning-hooks into spears, let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ ”

¹¹ Hasten and come, all you gentiles, and gather together all around. O יהוה, let Your mighty men come down here.

¹² “Let the gentiles be aroused, and come up to the Valley of Yehoshaphat. For there I shall sit to judge all the gentiles on every side.

¹³ “Put in the sickle, for the harvest has grown ripe. Come, go down, for the winepress is filled, the vats overflow, for their evil is great.”

¹⁴ Crowds, crowds in the valley of decision! For the day of יהוה  is near in the valley of decision.

¹⁵ Sun and moon shall become dark, and stars shall withdraw their brightness.

¹⁶ And יהוה  shall roar from Tsiyon, and give forth His voice from Yerushalayim. And the heavens and earth shall shake, but יהוה  shall be a refuge for His people, and a stronghold for the children of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁷ “Then you shall know that I am יהוה  your Elohim, dwelling in Tsiyon, My set-apart mountain. And Yerushalayim shall be set-apart, and foreigners shall not pass through her again.

¹⁸ “And it shall be in that day that the mountains drip with new wine, and the hills flow with milk. And all the streams of Yehuḏ

¹⁹ “Mitsrayim shall become a ruin, and Eḏ

²⁰ “But Yehuḏ

²¹ “And I shall avenge their blood, which I have not avenged. And יהוה  shall be dwelling in Tsiyon!”