Joel 3:1–9
1“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,↗
2I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,↗
3and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.↗
4“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.↗
5Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,↗
6and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.↗
7Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;↗
8and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for the LORD has spoken it.”↗
9Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.↗
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