IV.
The judgment of Christ upon the nations — the judgment upon the living
3:1-15
Joel 3
:1
3:1
For indeed, in those days and at that time
When I
aturn the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Joel 3
:2
3:2
I will
1agather all the nations
And will bring them down to the
bvalley of
2Jehoshaphat;
And I will enter into
3judgment with them there
Because of My people and My inheritance Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations.
And they have divided My land
Joel 3
:3
3:3
And have cast lots for My people;
And they have given a boy for a prostitute
And sold a girl for wine to drink.
Joel 3
:4
3:4
Indeed then, what are you to Me, Tyre and Sidon
And all the regions of Philistia?
Will you repay Me with a recompense?
But if you recompense Me,
Swiftly, speedily,
I will return your recompense upon your own head.
Joel 3
:5
3:5
In that you have taken My silver and My gold,
And have brought My fine precious things into your temples,
Joel 3
:6
3:6
And have sold to the children of the
1Javanim The children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem,
In order to remove them
Far from their borders;
Joel 3
:7
3:7
I will rouse them out of the place
To which you have sold them,
And will return your recompense upon your own head.
Joel 3
:8
3:8
And I will sell your sons and your daughters
Into the hand of the children of Judah,
And they will sell them to the Sabeans,
To a nation that is far off,
For Jehovah has spoken.
Joel 3
:9
3:9
Proclaim this among the
anations:
Prepare the battle;
bRouse the mighty men;
Let all the men of battle
Draw near; let them go up.
Joel 3
:10
3:10
Beat your
aplowshares into swords,
And your pruning knives into spears;
Let the weak say,
I am mighty.
Joel 3
:11
3:11
Hurry and come,
All you surrounding nations,
And be gathered.
There cause Your
1mighty ones to
adescend, O Jehovah!
Joel 3
:12
3:12
Let the nations rouse themselves and come up
To the
avalley of Jehoshaphat.
For there I will sit to judge
All the surrounding
bnations.
Joel 3
:13
3:13
Send forth the
asickle,
For the harvest is ripe;
Come, tread,
For the
bwinepress is full;
The wine vats overflow,
For their evil is great.
Joel 3
:14
3:14
Multitudes, multitudes,
In the valley of decision;
For the
aday of Jehovah has drawn near
In the valley of decision.
Joel 3
:15
3:15
The asun and the moon grow dark,
And the stars withdraw their shining.
V.
The victory of Christ over the nations and His reign among Israel
3:16-21
Joel 3
:16
3:16
aAnd Jehovah will roar from Zion,
And from Jerusalem He will utter His voice,
And the heavens and the earth will shake.
But Jehovah will be a
1bshelter to His people
And a stronghold to the children of Israel.
Joel 3
:17
3:17
Thus you will know that I am Jehovah your God,
aDwelling in Zion, My
bholy mountain.
And Jerusalem will be holy,
And strangers will pass through her no longer.
Joel 3
:18
3:18
And in that day
1The mountains will drop down
afresh wine,
And the hills will
bflow with milk;
And all the waterways of Judah
Will flow with water,
And a
2cfountain will go forth from the house of Jehovah,
And it will water the valley of Shittim.
Joel 3
:19
3:19
1aEgypt will be a desolation,
And
bEdom will be a desolate wilderness,
Because of the violence against the children of Judah,
In that they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Joel 3
:20
3:20
But Judah will abide forever,
And Jerusalem, from generation to generation;
Joel 3
:21
3:21
And I will acquit
them of their bloodshed that I had not acquitted them of,
For Jehovah
adwells in Zion.
