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Joel 3:7-21 Modern English Version (MEV)

7. I am about to rouse them from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your 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 distant nation, for the Lord has spoken.

9. Proclaim this among the nations:Consecrate a war!Stir up the mighty men!Let all the men of war draw near and rise.

10. Beat your plowshares into swordsand your pruning hooks into spears;let the weakling say,“I am a warrior!”

11. Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations,and gather there. Bring down Your warriors, O Lord.

12. Let the nations be roused,and go up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;for there I will sitto judge all the surrounding nations.

13. Swing the sickle,for the harvest is ripe.Come and tread,for the winepress is full.The wine vats overflow,because their evil is great.

14. Multitudes, multitudes,in the valley of decision!For the day of the Lord is nearin the valley of the decision.

15. The sun and moon darken,and the stars withdraw their radiance.

16. The Lord roars from Zion,and sounds His voice from Jerusalem,and heaven and earth quake.But the Lord is a refuge for His people,and a stronghold for the children of Israel.

17. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God,who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain.And Jerusalem will be holy,and invaders will never again pass through her.

18. And it will be that in that day the mountains will drip sweet wine,and the hills will flow with milk,and all the streambeds of Judah will flow with water;a spring will proceed from the house of the Lordand will water the Valley of Shittim.

19. Egypt will become a desolation,and Edom a desolate wasteland,because of the violence done to the people of Judah—they shed innocent blood in their land.

20. But Judah will be inhabited forever,and Jerusalem for generations and generations.

21. I will avenge their blood,which I have not yet avenged.The Lord dwells in Zion!

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