Book 29 : JOEL - Chapter 003
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I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into
the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for
my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered
among the nations, and parted my land
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And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy
for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might
drink
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Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and
all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence?
and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return
your recompence upon your own head
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Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried
into your temples my goodly pleasant things
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The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have
ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from
their border
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Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have
sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head
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And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of
the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the
Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it
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Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the
mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come
up
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Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into
spears: let the weak say, I am strong
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Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather
yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones
to come down, O LORD
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Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of
Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen
round about
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Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you
down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their
wickedness is great
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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day
of the LORD is near in the valley of decision
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The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall
withdraw their shining
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The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the
LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the
children of Israel
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So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion,
my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there
shall no strangers pass through her any more
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains
shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a
fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and
shall water the valley of Shittim
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Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate
wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land
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But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation
to generation
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For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for
the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
Book 29 : JOEL
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