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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Joel 3 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/joel/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/joel/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Joel 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joel/2.htm" title="Joel 2">◄</a> Joel 3 <a href="../amos/1.htm" title="Amos 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/joel/3-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The LORD Judges the Nations<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>For behold, in those days and in that time when I shall turn hack the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And I gathered all nations, and I brought them down to the valley of Jehoshophat, and I contended with them there for my people and mine inheritance Israel whom they scattered among the nations, and they divided the land.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And for my people they cast the lot: and they will give the boy for a harlot, and they sold the girl for wine; and they will drink.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And also what are ye to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the circuits of Philistia? do ye requite to me a recompense? and if ye recompense to me, swiftly and speedily I will turn back your recompense upon your head; <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For ye took my silver and my gold, and my delights of good things ye brought to your temples. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem ye sold to the sons of the Grecians, in order to remove them far off from their border. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold me raising them up from the place where ye sold them there, and I turned back your recompense upon your head: <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And I sold your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they sold them to the Sabeans to a nation far off: for Jehovah spake.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Call ye this among the nations: Consecrate war; rouse up the strong ones, they shall draw near, all the men of war shall come up.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears: the weak shall say, I am strong.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Hasten and come all ye nations from round about, and be ye gathered together: there lead down, O Jehovah, thy strong ones.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The nations shall be roused and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will sit to judge all the nations from round about.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Send ye forth the sickle, for the harvest was ripened: come ye, go down, for the wine press was filled, the vats, overflowed; for their evil is great.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of judgment: for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of judgment.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars took away their shining.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Jehovah shall cry out from Zion, and from Jerusalem he shall give his voice; and the heavens and the earth trembled: and Jehovah the refuge to his people, and the fortress to the sons of Israel.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">Blessings for God’s People<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And ye knew that I am Jehovah your God dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem was holy, and strangers shall no more pass through her.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And it was in that day the mountains shall drop new wine, and the hills shall flow milk, and all the channels of Judah shall flow waters, and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and it watered the valley of acacias.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Egypt shall be for a desolation, and Edom shall be for a desert of desolation from violence to the sons of Judah, because they poured out innocent blood in their land.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Judah shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem to generation and generation.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And I cleansed their blood I cleansed not: and Jehovah dwelt in Zion.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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