Jeff Kingshott
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Posted: 07/31/2014 at 7:58am
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Joel 3 Amplified Bible (AMP)
3 For behold, in those days and at that time when I shall
reverse the captivity and restore the fortunes of Judah
and Jerusalem,
2 I will gather all nations and will bring them down into
the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and there will I deal with and
execute judgment upon them for [their treatment of] My
people and of My heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations and [because] they have
divided My land.
3 And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a
boy for a harlot and have sold a girl for juice [of the
grape] and have drunk it.
4 Yes, and what are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon and all
the [five small] divisions of Philistia? Will you pay Me
back for something? Even if you pay Me back, swiftly and
speedily I will return your deed [of retaliation] upon
your own head,
5 Because you have taken My silver and My gold and have
carried into your temples and palaces My precious
treasures,
6 And have sold the children of Judah and the children of
Jerusalem to the sons of the Grecians, that you may
remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place to which
you have sold them and will return your deed [of
retaliation] upon your own head.
8 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 far off, for the Lord has spoken it.
9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war! Stir up
the mighty men! Let all the men of war draw near, let
them come up.
10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning
hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong [a
warrior]!
11 Hasten and come, all you nations round about, and
assemble yourselves; there You, O Lord, will bring down
Your mighty ones (Your warriors).
12 Let the nations bestir themselves and come up to the
Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there will I sit to judge all
the nations round about.
13 Put in the sickle, for the [vintage] harvest is ripe;
come, get down and tread the grapes, for the winepress is
full; the vats overflow, for the wickedness [of the
peoples] is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For
the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon are darkened and the stars
withdraw their shining.
16 The Lord will thunder and roar from Zion and utter His
voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall
shake; but the Lord will be a refuge for His people and a
stronghold to the children of Israel.
17 So shall you know, understand, and realize that I am
the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain.
Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and strangers and
foreigners [not born into the family of God] shall no
more pass through it.
18 And in that day, the mountains shall drip with fresh
juice [of the grape] and the hills shall flow with milk;
and all the brooks and riverbeds of Judah shall flow with
water, and a fountain shall come forth from the house of
the Lord and shall water the Valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt shall be a desolation and Edom shall be a
desolate wilderness for their violence against the
children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood
in their land.
20 But Judah shall remain and be inhabited forever, and
Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 And I will cleanse and hold as innocent their blood
and avenge it, blood which I have not cleansed, held
innocent, and avenged, for the Lord dwells in Zion.
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