요엘 3

1Yahweh says this: At that time [DOU], I will enable the people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah to prosper again. 2Then in the Valley of Judgment I will gather together the people of all the other nations; I will judge and punish them because they scattered my Israeli people and forced them to go to other countries. They divided up my land 3and they ◄threw marked stones/cast lots► to determine who would get each of my people. Then they sold some of the Israeli boys and girls to get money to pay for prostitutes and wine to drink. 4You people of [APO] Tyre and Sidon cities and you people of the Philistia region, I certainly have not [RHQ] done anything to harm you! So if you are trying to get revenge on me, I will very quickly get revenge on you. 5You have taken the silver and gold and other valuable things from my temple and put them in your temples. 6You dragged away the people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah, and you took them far away and sold them to people in Greece. 7But I will cause my people to want to return from the places to which you sold them, and I will do to you what you did to them. 8Then I will cause some of your sons and your daughters to be sold to the people of Judah! And some of them will be sold to the Sabea people-group, who live far away. That will certainly happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.” 9Proclaim to the people of all nations, a war! 10Take your plows and make swords from them, take your pruning knives and make spears from them. Even the weak people must also be like [MET] strong soldiers. 11All you people from the nations that are near Judah in the Valley of Judgment.” Yahweh, when that happens, send your army of angels to attack them! 12The people in the nations near Judah must get ready and come to the Valley of Judgment. Yahweh will sit and judge and punish them. 13They are like [MET] crops that are ready to be harvested; strike them like [MET] a farmer swings his sickle to cut the grain. punish them severely [MET] now, a farmer tramples on the grapes until the pits are full of juice. 14There will be huge crowds of people in that Valley of Judgment. Yahweh will punish them. 15At that time there will be no light from the sun or moon, 16From Zion Hill in Jerusalem Yahweh will shout, Yahweh will protect [MET] his people; a strong wall behind which the people of Israel will be protected. 17Yahweh says, “At that time, you Israeli people will know that I am Yahweh, your God. a sacred city, soldiers from other countries will never conquer it again. 18At that time, there will be vineyards covering [MTY] the hills, your cattle and goats on those hills will produce plenty of milk. a stream will flow from my temple into the Acacia Valley northeast of the Dead Sea. 19The armies of Egypt and Edom attacked the people of Judah now those countries will become deserts, 20but there will always be people living in Jerusalem and in other places in Judea. 21I, Yahweh, live on Zion Hill in Jerusalem, of Egypt and Edom who killed [MTY] many of my people.”