1 For, behold, in those days and at that time, when I shall have turned the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all the Gentiles, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and my heritage Israel, who have been dispersed among the Gentiles; and [these Gentiles] have divided my land, 3 and cast lots over my people, and have given [their] boys to harlots, and sold [their] girls for wine, and have drunk. 4 And what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles? do ye render me a recompense? or do ye bear malice against me? quickly and speedily will I return your recompense on your own heads: 5 because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and ye have brought my choice ornaments into your temples; 6 and ye have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that ye might expel them from their coasts. 7 Therefore, behold, I [will] raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads. 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them into captivity to a far distant nation: for the Lord has spoken [it]. 9 Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all ye men of war. 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your sickles into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Gather yourselves together, and go in, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves there: let the timid become a warrior. 12 Let them be aroused, let all the nations go up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the Gentiles round about. 13 Bring forth the sickles, for the vintage is come: go in, tread [the grapes], for the press is full: cause the vats to overflow; for their wickedness is multiplied. 14 Noises have resounded in the valley of judgment: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of judgment. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light. 16 And the Lord shall cry out of Zion, and shall utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heaven and the earth shall be shaken, but the Lord shall spare his people, and shall strengthen the children of Israel. 17 And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Zion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her anymore. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day [that] the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the fountains of Judah shall flow with water, and a fountain shall go forth of the house of the Lord, and water the Valley of Flags. 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Judah, because they have shed righteous blood in their land. 20 But Judea shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations. 21 And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Zion.
Joel · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Joel 4 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in LXXUP.
- 1 Zephaniah 3:19–20; Jeremiah 30:3; Ezekiel 39:25; Amos 9:14; Jeremiah 29:14
- 2 Zechariah 14:2–4; Isaiah 66:16; Zephaniah 3:8; Ezekiel 38:22; Joel 3:12
- 3 Nahum 3:10; Amos 2:6; Obadiah 11; Revelation 18:13; 2 Chronicles 28:8–9
- 4 Amos 1:6–10; Jeremiah 47:4; Isaiah 34:8; Isaiah 59:18; Ezekiel 25:12–17
- 5 2 Chronicles 21:16–17; 2 Kings 24:13; 2 Kings 16:8; 2 Kings 12:18; 2 Kings 18:15–16
- 6 Ezekiel 27:13; Joel 3:3; Joel 3:8; Deuteronomy 28:68; Deuteronomy 28:32
- 7 Isaiah 43:5–6; Jeremiah 23:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Jeremiah 30:16; Jeremiah 30:10
- 8 Isaiah 60:14; Job 1:15; Judges 2:14; Isaiah 14:1–2; Judges 4:2
- 9 Jeremiah 46:3–4; Ezekiel 38:7; Isaiah 8:9–10; Jeremiah 31:10; Jeremiah 50:2
- 10 Zechariah 12:8; Micah 4:3; Isaiah 2:4; 2 Chronicles 25:8; Luke 22:36
- 11 Isaiah 13:3; Zephaniah 3:8; Revelation 19:19–20; Revelation 19:14; 2 Thessalonians 1:7
- 12 Joel 3:2; Isaiah 3:13; Psalm 98:9; Isaiah 2:4; Psalm 96:13
- 13 Revelation 14:15–20; Hosea 6:11; Mark 4:29; Jeremiah 51:33; Isaiah 63:3
- 14 Isaiah 34:2–8; Joel 3:2; Philippians 3:2; Revelation 16:14–16; Joel 1:15
- 15 Joel 2:10; Luke 21:25–26; Joel 2:31; Matthew 24:29; Isaiah 13:10
- 16 Amos 1:2; Joel 2:10–11; Jeremiah 25:30–31; Proverbs 18:10; Jeremiah 16:19
- 17 Joel 2:27; Nahum 1:15; Isaiah 52:1; Isaiah 4:3; Revelation 21:27
- 18 Isaiah 35:6; Ezekiel 47:1–12; Revelation 22:1–2; Zechariah 14:8; Amos 9:13–14
- 19 Isaiah 19:1–15; Zechariah 14:18–19; Jeremiah 51:35; Ezekiel 35:1–15; Amos 1:11–12
- 20 Ezekiel 37:25; Isaiah 33:20; Amos 9:15
- 21 Isaiah 4:4; Revelation 21:3; Ezekiel 36:25; Ezekiel 36:29; Ezekiel 48:35
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 3.
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… will have compassion upon us: He will destroy our iniquities, and will cast our sins into the depths of the sea." And again, specifying the place of His advent, he says: "The Lord hath spoken from Zion, and He has uttered His voice from Jerusalem." And that it is from that region which is towards the south of the inheritance …
And there are also some of them who say, "The Lord hath spoken in Zion, and uttered His voice from Jerusalem;" and, "In Judah is God known;" -- these indicated His advent which took place in Judea.