| 3:1 | "For behold, in those days and at that time, When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, |
| 3:2 | I will also gather all nations, And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them there On account of My people, My heritage Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land. |
| 3:3 | They have cast lots for My people, Have given a boy [as payment] for a harlot, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink. |
| 3:4 | "Indeed, what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? Will you retaliate against Me? But if you retaliate against Me, Swiftly and speedily I will return your retaliation upon your own head; |
| 3:5 | Because you have taken My silver and My gold, And have carried into your temples My prized possessions. |
| 3:6 | Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem You have sold to the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their borders. |
| 3:7 | "Behold, I will raise them Out of the place to which you have sold them, And will return your retaliation upon your own head. |
| 3:8 | I will sell your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the people of Judah, And they will sell them to the Sabeans, To a people far off; For the LORD has spoken." |
| 3:9 | Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, Let all the men of war draw near, Let them come up. |
| 3:10 | Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, `I [am] strong.'" |
| 3:11 | Assemble and come, all you nations, And gather together all around. Cause Your mighty ones to go down there, O LORD. |
| 3:12 | "Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. |
| 3:13 | Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; For the winepress is full, The vats overflowFor their wickedness [is] great." |
| 3:14 | Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD [is] near in the valley of decision. |
| 3:15 | The sun and moon will grow dark, And the stars will diminish their brightness. |
| 3:16 | The LORD also will roar from Zion, And utter His voice from Jerusalem; The heavens and earth will shake; But the LORD will be a shelter for His people, And the strength of the children of Israel. |
| 3:17 | "So you shall know that I [am] the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, And no aliens shall ever pass through her again." |
| 3:18 | And it will come to pass in that day [That] the mountains shall drip with new wine, The hills shall flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water; A fountain shall flow from the house of the LORD And water the Valley of Acacias. |
| 3:19 | "Egypt shall be a desolation, And Edom a desolate wilderness, Because of violence [against] the people of Judah, For they have shed innocent blood in their land. |
| 3:20 | But Judah shall abide forever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation. |
| 3:21 | "For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted; For the LORD dwells in Zion." |
Joel 3 - New King James Version
