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Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> to send them far from their homeland. <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” <p class="reg"> Indeed, the LORD has spoken. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Proclaim this among the nations: <p class="indent1stline">“Prepare for war; <p class="indent2"> rouse the mighty men; <p class="indent1"> let all the men of war <p class="indent2"> advance and attack! <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Beat your plowshares into swords <p class="indent2"> and your pruning hooks into spears. <p class="indent2"> Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’ <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, <p class="indent2"> and gather yourselves. <p class="indent1"> Bring down Your mighty ones, <p class="indent2"> O LORD. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Let the nations be roused <p class="indent2"> and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, <p class="indent1"> for there I will sit down <p class="indent2"> to judge all the nations on every side. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Swing the sickle, <p class="indent2"> for the harvest is ripe.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <p class="indent1"> Come, trample the grapes, <p class="indent2"> for the winepress is full; <p class="indent1"> the wine vats overflow <p class="indent2"> because their wickedness is great. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Multitudes, multitudes <p class="indent2"> in the valley of decision! <p class="indent1"> For the Day of the LORD is near <p class="indent2"> in the valley of decision. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The sun and moon will grow dark, <p class="indent2"> and the stars will no longer shine. <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The LORD will roar from Zion <p class="indent2"> and raise His voice from Jerusalem; <p class="indent2"> heaven and earth will tremble. <p class="indent1"> But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, <p class="indent2"> a stronghold for the people of Israel. <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">Blessings for God’s People<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, <p class="indent2"> who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. <p class="indent1"> Jerusalem will be holy, <p class="indent2"> never again to be overrun by foreigners. <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, <p class="indent2"> and the hills will flow with milk. <p class="indent1"> All the streams of Judah will run with water, <p class="indent2"> and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD <p class="indent2"> to water the Valley of Acacias.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Egypt will become desolate, <p class="indent2"> and Edom a desert wasteland, <p class="indent1"> because of the violence done to the people of Judah, <p class="indent2"> in whose land they shed innocent blood. <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But Judah will be inhabited forever, <p class="indent2"> and Jerusalem from generation to generation. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For I will avenge their blood, <p class="indent2"> which I have not yet avenged.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span>” <p class="selah"> For the LORD dwells in Zion.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>Jehoshaphat</i><span class="thin"> </span> means <i>the LORD judges</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 12.<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>palaces</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>to the peoples of Javan</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> LXX <i>the harvest has come</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see also <a href="../mark/4.htm#29">Mark 4:29</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> Or <i>Valley of Shittim</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> Or <i>For I will pardon their bloodguilt, which I have not yet pardoned.</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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