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Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense on your head. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>behold, I am going to arouse them from the place where you have sold them, and return your recompense on your head. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Also I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation, for the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has spoken. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Proclaim this among the nations:<br>         Prepare a war; rouse the mighty men!<br>         Let all the soldiers draw near, let them come up! <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Beat your plowshares into swords<br>         And your pruning hooks into spears;<br>         Let the weak say, I am a mighty man. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations,<br>         And gather yourselves there.<br>         Bring down, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, Your mighty ones. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Let the nations be aroused<br>         And come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat,<br>         For there I will sit to judge<br>         All the surrounding nations. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.<br>         Come, tread, for the wine press is full;<br>         The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!<br>         For the day of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is near in the valley of decision. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>The sun and moon grow dark<br>         And the stars lose their brightness. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> roars from Zion<br>         And utters His voice from Jerusalem,<br>         And the heavens and the earth tremble.<br>         But the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is a refuge for His people<br>         And a stronghold to the sons of Israel. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Then you will know that I am the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God,<br>         Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain.<br>         So Jerusalem will be holy,<br>         And strangers will pass through it no more. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Judah Will Be Blessed</i></b></font><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>And in that day<br>         The mountains will drip with sweet wine,<br>         And the hills will flow with milk,<br>         And all the brooks of Judah will flow with water;<br>         And a spring will go out from the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font><br>         To water the valley of Shittim. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Egypt will become a waste,<br>         And Edom will become a desolate wilderness,<br>         Because of the violence done to the sons of Judah,<br>         In whose land they have shed innocent blood. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>But Judah will be inhabited forever<br>         And Jerusalem for all generations. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>And I will avenge their blood which I have not avenged,<br>         For the L<font size="1">ORD</font> dwells in Zion.<p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/joel/3.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/joel/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/joel/3.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Yea also, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompence? But if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I bring your recompence upon your own head;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/joel/3.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/joel/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/joel/3.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />"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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/joel/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And also, what are ye to Me, O Tyre and Zidon, And all circuits of Philistia? Recompence are ye rendering unto Me? And if ye are giving recompence to Me, Swiftly, hastily, I turn back your recompence on your head.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the_gospel_day_/the_gospel_day_seen_in.htm">The Gospel Day Seen in Prophecy. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Upon reading the account of man's creation in the first chapters of Genesis we conclude that he enjoyed perfect peace and happiness. From the beautiful description given there of the garden of Eden--man's abode--we understand that God was interested in his felicity. In the nature of created things he could retain this happiness only by obedience to the Creator's laws. By a subtle foe he was induced to transgress those laws and thus became acquainted with sin and sorrow. After the transgression he <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the_gospel_day_/the_gospel_day_seen_in.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Ebert Orr—</span><span class="citation2">The Gospel Day </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_judgment_will_take_2.htm">Whether the Judgment Will Take Place in the Valley of Josaphat?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that the judgment will not take place in the valley of Josaphat or in the surrounding locality. For at least it will be necessary for those to be judged to stand on the ground, and those alone to be raised aloft whose business it will be to judge. But the whole land of promise would not be able to contain the multitude of those who are to be judged. Therefore it is impossible for the judgment to take place in the neighborhood of that valley. Objection 2: Further, to Christ <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_judgment_will_take_2.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_desire_of_ages/chapter_81_the_lord_is.htm">"The Lord is Risen"</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The night of the first day of the week had worn slowly away. The darkest hour, just before daybreak, had come. Christ was still a prisoner in His narrow tomb. The great stone was in its place; the Roman seal was unbroken; the Roman guards were keeping their watch. And there were unseen watchers. Hosts of evil angels were gathered about the place. Had it been possible, the prince of darkness with his apostate army would have kept forever sealed the tomb that held the Son of God. But a heavenly host <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_desire_of_ages/chapter_81_the_lord_is.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Desire of Ages</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the_redeemers_return/iii_post-millennialism_refuted_.htm">Post-Millennialism Refuted. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The post-millennial position rests largely upon a mis-translation. In Matt. 13:39 we read "The harvest is the end of the world," and again in Matt. 24:3--"And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?" Now the Greek word which is used in the above passages is entirely different from the one found in John 3:16--"God so loved the Kosmos." In the verses <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the_redeemers_return/iii_post-millennialism_refuted_.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Arthur W. Pink—</span><span class="citation2">The Redeemer's Return</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the_redeemers_return/6_the_battle_of_armageddon.htm">The Battle of Armageddon. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The Battle of Armageddon! What extravagant speculations have been indulged concerning it! What unscriptural theories have been entertained respecting it! To begin with; this appears from the term employed. Nowhere in the Bible do we read of "The Battle of Armageddon." The Scriptural expression is "The Battle of that great day of God Almighty" (Rev. 16:14). This Battle of the great day of God Almighty will bring the Tribulation period to a close and will witness the return of Christ to the earth to <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the_redeemers_return/6_the_battle_of_armageddon.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Arthur W. Pink—</span><span class="citation2">The Redeemer's Return</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xxiii_the_twelve_minor.htm">The Twelve Minor Prophets. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. By the Jewish arrangement, which places together the twelve minor prophets in a single volume, the chronological order of the prophets as a whole is broken up. The three greater prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, stand in the true order of time. Daniel began to prophesy before Ezekiel, but continued, many years after him. The Jewish arrangement of the twelve minor prophets is in a sense chronological; that is, they put the earlier prophets at the beginning, and the later at the end of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xxiii_the_twelve_minor.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">E. P. Barrows—</span><span class="citation2">Companion to the Bible</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_39_the_valley_of.htm">The Valley of Hinnom. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">A great part of the valley of Kedron was called also the 'Valley of Hinnom.' Jeremiah, going forth into the valley of Hinnom, went out by the gate "Hacharsith, the Sun-gate," Jeremiah 19:2; that is, the Rabbins and others being interpreters, 'by the East-gate.' For thence was the beginning of the valley of Hinnom, which, after some space, bending itself westward, ran out along the south side of the city. There is no need to repeat those very many things, which are related of this place in the Old <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_39_the_valley_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_prophecy_of_obadiah.htm">The Prophecy of Obadiah. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">We need not enter into details regarding the question as to the time when the prophet wrote. By a thorough argumentation, Caspari has proved, that he occupies his right position in the Canon, and hence belongs to the earliest age of written prophecy, i.e., to the time of Jeroboam II. and Uzziah. As bearing conclusively against those who would assign to him a far later date, viz., the time of the exile, there is not only the indirect testimony borne by the place which this prophecy occupies in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_prophecy_of_obadiah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/exposition_of_chap_iii_ii.htm">Exposition of Chap. Iii. (ii. 28-32. )</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Ver. 1. "And it shall come to pass, afterwards, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions." The communication of the Spirit of God was the constant prerogative of the Covenant-people. Indeed, the very idea of such a people necessarily requires it. For the Spirit of God is the only inward bond betwixt Him and that which is created; a Covenant-people, therefore, without such an inward <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/exposition_of_chap_iii_ii.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_15_the_great_assize.htm">The Great Assize</a><br></span><span class="snippet">[i.e., The Last Judgment -- GL] [21] "We shall all stand before the judgement-seat of Christ." Rom. 14:10. 1. How many circumstances concur to raise the awfulness of the present solemnity! -- The general concourse of people of every age, sex, rank, and condition of life, willingly or unwillingly gathered together, not only from the neighboring, but from distant, parts; criminals, speedily to be brought forth and having no way to escape; officers, waiting in their various posts, to execute the orders <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_15_the_great_assize.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Wesley—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Several Occasions</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xxxv_the_figurative_language.htm">The Figurative Language of Scripture. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. When the psalmist says: "The Lord God is a sun and shield" (Psa. 84:11), he means that God is to all his creatures the source of life and blessedness, and their almighty protector; but this meaning he conveys under the figure of a sun and a shield. When, again, the apostle James says that Moses is read in the synagogues every Sabbath-day (Acts 15:21), he signifies the writings of Moses under the figure of his name. In these examples the figure lies in particular words. But it may be embodied <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xxxv_the_figurative_language.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">E. P. 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