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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 NLT</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">NLT</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 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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/joel/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Judgment against Enemy Nations</p><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a>“At the time of those events,” says the LORD,</p><p class="line2">“when I restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem,</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I will gather the armies of the world</p><p class="line2">into the valley of Jehoshaphat.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line1">There I will judge them</p><p class="line2">for harming my people, my special possession,</p><p class="line1">for scattering my people among the nations,</p><p class="line2">and for dividing up my land.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They threw dice<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> to decide which of my people</p><p class="line2">would be their slaves.</p><p class="line1">They traded boys to obtain prostitutes</p><p class="line2">and sold girls for enough wine to get drunk.</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“What do you have against me, Tyre and Sidon and you cities of Philistia? Are you trying to take revenge on me? If you are, then watch out! I will strike swiftly and pay you back for everything you have done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You have taken my silver and gold and all my precious treasures, and have carried them off to your pagan temples. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> so they could take them far from their homeland.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“But I will bring them back from all the places to which you sold them, and I will pay you back for everything you have done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the people of Arabia,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> a nation far away. I, the LORD, have spoken!”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Say to the nations far and wide:</p><p class="line2">“Get ready for war!</p><p class="line1">Call out your best warriors.</p><p class="line2">Let all your fighting men advance for the attack.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Hammer your plowshares into swords</p><p class="line2">and your pruning hooks into spears.</p><p class="line2">Train even your weaklings to be warriors.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Come quickly, all you nations everywhere.</p><p class="line2">Gather together in the valley.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">And now, O LORD, call out your warriors!</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Let the nations be called to arms.</p><p class="line2">Let them march to the valley of Jehoshaphat.</p><p class="line1">There I, the LORD, will sit</p><p class="line2">to pronounce judgment on them all.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Swing the sickle,</p><p class="line2">for the harvest is ripe.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a></p><p class="line1">Come, tread the grapes,</p><p class="line2">for the winepress is full.</p><p class="line1">The storage vats are overflowing</p><p class="line2">with the wickedness of these people.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thousands upon thousands are waiting in the valley of decision.</p><p class="line2">There the day of the LORD will soon arrive.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The sun and moon will grow dark,</p><p class="line2">and the stars will no longer shine.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The LORD’s voice will roar from Zion</p><p class="line2">and thunder from Jerusalem,</p><p class="line2">and the heavens and the earth will shake.</p><p class="line1">But the LORD will be a refuge for his people,</p><p class="line2">a strong fortress for the people of Israel.</p><p class="hdg">Blessings for God’s People</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Then you will know that I, the LORD your God,</p><p class="line2">live in Zion, my holy mountain.</p><p class="line1">Jerusalem will be holy forever,</p><p class="line2">and foreign armies will never conquer her again.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine,</p><p class="line2">and the hills will flow with milk.</p><p class="line1">Water will fill the streambeds of Judah,</p><p class="line2">and a fountain will burst forth from the LORD’s Temple,</p><p class="line2">watering the arid valley of acacias.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But Egypt will become a wasteland</p><p class="line2">and Edom will become a wilderness,</p><p class="line1">because they attacked the people of Judah</p><p class="line2">and killed innocent people in their land.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“But Judah will be filled with people forever,</p><p class="line2">and Jerusalem will endure through all generations.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I will pardon my people’s crimes,</p><p class="line2">which I have not yet pardoned;</p><p class="line1">and I, the LORD, will make my home</p><p class="line2">in Jerusalem<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a> with my people.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">Verses 3:1-21 are numbered 4:1-21 in Hebrew text.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">3:2 </span><span class="it">Jehoshaphat</span><span class="ft"> means “the </span><span class="sc">Lord</span><span class="ft"> judges.”</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">3:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">They cast lots.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">3:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">to the peoples of Javan.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">to the Sabeans.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">3:13 </span><span class="ft">Greek version reads </span><span class="it">for the harvest time has come.</span><span class="ft"> Compare Mark 4:29.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">3:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">valley of Shittim.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">3:21 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Zion.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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