| 3:1 | For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, |
| 3:2 | I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will judge them there for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided my land. |
| 3:3 | And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. |
| 3:4 | Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily I will return your recompence upon your own head; |
| 3:5 | Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my precious things: |
| 3:6 | The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold to the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. |
| 3:7 | Behold, I will raise them out of the place where ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: |
| 3:8 | And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [it]. |
| 3:9 | Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare 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 pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong. |
| 3:11 | Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together all around: there cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. |
| 3:12 | Let the heathen be awakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen on every side. |
| 3:13 | Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, go down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for 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 the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. |
| 3:16 | The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD [will be] the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. |
| 3:17 | So shall ye know that I [am] the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. |
| 3:18 | And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. |
| 3:19 | Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence [against] the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. |
| 3:20 | But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. |
| 3:21 | For I will cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. |
Joel 3 - Revised Webster Version
