Joel 3 NKJV

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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/joel/3.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>God Judges the Nations</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Joel-3-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“For behold, in those days and at that time,</span></span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-1">When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I will also gather all nations,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-2">And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-2">And I will enter into judgment with them there</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-2">On account of My people, My heritage Israel,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-2">Whom they have scattered among the nations;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-2">They have also divided up My land.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They have cast lots for My people,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-3">Have given a boy <i>as payment</i> for a harlot,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-3">And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Indeed, what have you to do with Me,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-4">O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia?</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-4">Will you <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>retaliate against Me?</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-4">But if you <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>retaliate against Me,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-4">Swiftly and speedily I will return your <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>retaliation upon your own head;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Because you have taken My silver and My gold,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-5">And have carried into your temples My <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>prized possessions.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-6">You have sold to the Greeks,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-6">That you may remove them far from their borders.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Behold, I will raise them</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-7">Out of the place to which you have sold them,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-7">And will return your <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>retaliation upon your own head.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I will sell your sons and your daughters</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-8">Into the hand of the people of Judah,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-8">And they will sell them to the Sabeans,<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span></span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-8">To a people far off;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-8">For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has spoken.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Proclaim this among the nations:</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-9">“Prepare for war!</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-9">Wake up the mighty men,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-9">Let all the men of war draw near,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-9">Let them come up.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Beat your plowshares into swords</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-10">And your <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>pruning hooks into spears;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-10">Let the weak say, ‘I <i>am</i> strong.’ ”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Assemble and come, all you nations,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-11">And gather together all around.</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-11">Cause Your mighty ones to go down there, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-12">For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-13">Come, go down;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-13">For the winepress is full,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-13">The vats overflow—</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-13">For their wickedness <i>is</i> great.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-14">For the day of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> <i>is</i> near in the valley of decision.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The sun and moon will grow dark,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-15">And the stars will diminish their brightness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> also will roar from Zion,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-16">And utter His voice from Jerusalem;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-16">The heavens and earth will shake;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-16">But the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> will be a shelter for His people,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-16">And the strength of the children of Israel.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“So you shall know that I <i>am</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> your God,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-17">Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain.</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-17">Then Jerusalem shall be holy,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-17">And no aliens shall ever pass through her again.”</span></p></div> <h3> God Blesses His People</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Joel-3-18"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And it will come to pass in that day</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-18"><i>That</i> the mountains shall drip with new wine,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-18">The hills shall flow with milk,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-18">And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-18">A fountain shall flow from the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-18">And water the Valley of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>Acacias.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Egypt shall be a desolation,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-19">And Edom a desolate wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-19">Because of violence <i>against</i> the people of Judah,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-19">For they have shed innocent blood in their land.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But Judah shall abide forever,</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-20">And Jerusalem from generation to generation.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted;</span><br /><span class="text Joel-3-21">For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> dwells in Zion.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-22348a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 3:4">Joel 3:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>render Me repayment</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22348b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 3:4">Joel 3:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>repay Me</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22348c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 3:4">Joel 3:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>repayment</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22349d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 3:5">Joel 3:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>precious good things</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22351e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 3:7">Joel 3:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>repayment</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22352f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 3:8">Joel 3:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>Shebaites,</i> <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.60.6" href="/passage/?search=Isa.60.6&version=NKJV">Is. 60:6</span>; <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezek.27.22" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.27.22&version=NKJV">Ezek. 27:22</span></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22354g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 3:10">Joel 3:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>pruning knives</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22362h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joel 3:18">Joel 3:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Shittim</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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