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Are you rendering repayment to Me? And if you are giving repayment to Me, "" Swiftly, quickly, I return your repayment on your head. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>In that My silver and My gold you took, "" And My desirable things that are good, "" You have brought into your temples. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, "" You have sold to the sons of Javan, "" To put 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, I am stirring them up out of the place "" To where you have sold them, "" And I have turned back your repayment on your head, <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And have sold your sons and your daughters "" Into the hand of the sons of Judah, "" And they have sold them to Sabeans, "" To a nation far off, for YHWH has spoken.”<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Proclaim this among nations, "" Sanctify a war, stir up the mighty ones, "" Come near, come up, let all the men of war.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Beat your plowshares to swords, "" And your pruning-hooks to javelins, "" Let the weak say, “I [am] mighty.”<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Hurry, and come in, all you nations around, "" And be gathered together, "" There cause to come down, O YHWH, "" Your mighty ones.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Let the nations wake and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, "" For there I sit to judge all the nations around.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Send forth a sickle, "" For harvest has ripened, "" Come in, come down, for the press has been filled, "" Winepresses have overflowed, "" For great [is] their wickedness.”<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Multitudes, multitudes [are] in the Valley of Decision, "" For near [is] the Day of YHWH in the Valley of Decision.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Sun and moon have been black, "" And stars have gathered up their shining.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And YHWH roars from Zion, "" And gives forth His voice from Jerusalem, "" And the heavens and earth have shaken, "" And YHWH [is] a refuge to His people, "" And a stronghold to sons of Israel.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“And you have known that I [am] your God YHWH, "" Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain, "" And Jerusalem has been holy, "" And strangers do not pass over into it again.”<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And it has come to pass in that day, "" The mountains drop down juice, "" And the hills flow [with] milk, "" And all streams of Judah go [with] water, "" And a fountain from the house of YHWH goes forth, "" And has watered the Valley of Shittim.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Egypt becomes a desolation, "" And Edom becomes a desolation, a wilderness, "" For violence [to] sons of Judah, "" Whose innocent blood they shed in their land.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Judah dwells for all time, "" And Jerusalem to generation and generation.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/joel/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And I have declared their blood innocent, "" [That] I did not declare innocent, "" And YHWH is dwelling in Zion!”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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