# Daily Bible Reading | Joel 3

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# ***JOEL 3***

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*The LORD Judges the Nations*

\[1\] “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, \[2\] I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, \[3\] and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

\[4\] “What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. \[5\] For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. \[6\] You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. \[7\] Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head. \[8\] I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken.”

\[9\] Proclaim this among the nations:

Consecrate for 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 a warrior.”

\[11\] Hasten and come,

all you surrounding nations,

and gather yourselves there.

Bring down your warriors, O LORD.

\[12\] Let the nations stir themselves up

and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;

for there I will sit to judge

all the surrounding nations.

\[13\] Put in the sickle,

for the harvest is ripe.

Go in, tread,

for the winepress is full.

The vats overflow,

for their evil 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 roars from Zion,

and utters his voice from Jerusalem,

and the heavens and the earth quake.

But the LORD is a refuge to his people,

a stronghold to the people of Israel.

*The Glorious Future of Judah*

\[17\] “So you shall know that I am the LORD your God,

who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain.

And Jerusalem shall be holy,

and strangers shall never again pass through it.

\[18\] “And in that day

the mountains shall drip sweet wine,

and the hills shall flow with milk,

and all the streambeds of Judah

shall flow with water;

and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD

and water the Valley of Shittim.

\[19\] “Egypt shall become a desolation

and Edom a desolate wilderness,

for the violence done to the people of Judah,

because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

\[20\] But Judah shall be inhabited forever,

and Jerusalem to all generations.

\[21\] I will avenge their blood,

blood I have not avenged,

for the LORD dwells in Zion.” (ESV)