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and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Yes, 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 I will return your recompense upon your own head; <span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold to the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head: <span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Beat your plow-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together around: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Let the heathen be awakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen on every side.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, go down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The LORD also will 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.</p> <p class="hdg">Blessings for God's People</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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 from the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Webster Bible Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../joel/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Joel 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Joel 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../amos/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Amos 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Amos 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/joel/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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