29_JOE_03_01 for, behold, in those days, And in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah And Jerusalem,
29_JOE_03_02 I will also gather all nations, And will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, And will plead with them there for my people And [ for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, And parted my land.
29_JOE_03_03 And they have cast lots for my people; And have given A boy for an harlot, And sold A girl for wine, that they might drink.
29_JOE_03_04 yea, And what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, And Zidon, And all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me A recompense? And if ye recompense me, swiftly [ And] speedily will I Return your recompense upon your own head;
29_JOE_03_05 because ye have taken my silver And my gold, And have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
29_JOE_03_06 the children also of Judah And the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
29_JOE_03_07 behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, And will Return your recompense upon your own head:
29_JOE_03_08 And I will sell your sons And your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, And they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to A people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [ it].
29_JOE_03_09 proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
29_JOE_03_10 beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I [ am] strong.
29_JOE_03_11 assemble yourselves, And come, all ye heathen, And gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
29_JOE_03_12 let the heathen be wakened, And come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
29_JOE_03_13 put ye in the sickle, for the harvest Is ripe: come, get you down; for the press Is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness [ Is] great.
29_JOE_03_14 multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD [ Is] near in the valley of decision.
29_JOE_03_15 the sun And the moon shall be darkened, And the stars shall withdraw their shining.
29_JOE_03_16 the LORD also shall roar out of Zion, And utter his voice from Jerusalem; And the heavens And the earth shall shake: but the LORD [ will be] the hope of his people, And the strength of the children of Israel.
29_JOE_03_17 So shall ye know that I [ am] the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: Then shall Jerusalem be holy, And there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
29_JOE_03_18 And it shall come to pass in that day, [ that] the mountains shall drop down new wine, And the hills shall flow with milk, And all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, And A fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, And shall water the valley of shittim.
29_JOE_03_19 Egypt shall be A desolation, And Edom shall be A desolate wilderness, for the violence [ against] the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
29_JOE_03_20 but Judah shall dwell for ever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
29_JOE_03_21 for I will cleanse their blood [ that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.