יואל ד

For lo! in those days
And in that time,
When I restore the fortunes
Of Judah and Jerusalem,

I will gather all the nations
And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I will contend with them
Over My very own people, Israel,
Which they scattered among the nations.
For they divided My land among themselves

And cast lots over My people;
And they bartered a boy for a whore,
And sold a girl for wine, which they drank.

What is this you are doing to Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Are you requiting Me for something I have done, or are you doing something for My benefit? Quick as a flash, I will pay you back;

for you have taken My gold and My silver, and have carried off My precious treasures to your palaces;

and you have sold the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem to the Ionians, so that you have removed them far away from their homeland.

Behold, I will rouse them to leave the place you have sold them to, and I will pay you back:

I will deliver your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them into captivity to a distant nation—for GOD has spoken.

Proclaim this among the nations:
Prepare for battle!
Arouse the warriors,
Let all the fighters come and draw near!

Beat your plowshares into swords,
And your pruning hooks into spears.
Let even the weakling say, “I am strong.”

Rouse yourselves and come,
All you nations;
Come together
From round about.
There bring down
Your warriors, O ETERNAL One!

Let the nations rouse themselves and march up
To the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
For there I will sit in judgment
Over all the nations round about.

Swing the sickle,
For the crop is ripe;
Come and tread,
For the winepress is full,
The vats are overflowing!
For great is their wickedness.

Multitudes upon multitudes
In the Valley of Decision!
For the day of GOD is at hand
In the Valley of Decision.

Sun and moon are darkened,
And stars withdraw their brightness.

And GOD will roar from Zion,
And shout aloud from Jerusalem,
So that heaven and earth tremble.
But GOD will be a shelter to this covenanted people,
A refuge to the children of Israel.

And you shall know that I the ETERNAL your God
Dwell in Zion, My holy mount.
And Jerusalem shall be holy;
Nevermore shall strangers pass through it.

And in that day,
The mountains shall drip with wine,
The hills shall flow with milk,
And all the watercourses of Judah shall flow with water;
A spring shall issue from the House of GOD
And shall water the Wadi of the Acacias.

Egypt shall be a desolation,
And Edom a desolate waste,
Because of the outrage to the people of Judah,
In whose land they shed the blood of the innocent.

But Judah shall be inhabited forever,
And Jerusalem throughout the ages.

Thus I will treat as innocent their blood
That I have not treated as innocent;
And GOD shall dwell in Zion.