Joel 3

1“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, 2I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land, 3and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink. 4“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head. 5Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples, 6and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, 7Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, 8and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, a faraway nation, Yahweh has spoken it.” 9Proclaim this among the nations: 10Beat your plowshares into swords, 11Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, Yahweh. 12“Let the nations arouse themselves, 13Put in the sickle; 14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! Yahweh is near in the valley of decision. 15The sun and the moon are darkened, 16Yahweh will roar from Zion, Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the children of Israel. 17“So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, 18It will happen in that day, a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, 19Egypt will be a desolation a desolate wilderness, 20But Judah will be inhabited forever, 21I will cleanse their blood Yahweh dwells in Zion.”