Joel 3 Berean Standard Bible
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Joel is not in PT1904.
1 “Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,
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2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.
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3 They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
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4 Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.
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5 For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.
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6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
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7 Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
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8 I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
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9 Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!
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10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
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11 Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves. Bring down Your mighty ones, O LORD.
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12 Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.
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13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.
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14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
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15 The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.
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16 The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
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17 Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.
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18 And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
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19 Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
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20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
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21 For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.
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Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 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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… 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.