Book 16 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - JOEL - Chapter 004
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For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall
bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem
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I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into
the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into judgment with them there for My
people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations,
and divided 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, and have drunk
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And also what are ye to Me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the
regions of Philistia? will ye render retribution on My behalf? and if ye render
retribution on My behalf, swiftly, speedily will I return your retribution upon
your own head
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Forasmuch as ye have taken My silver and My gold, and have
carried into your temples My goodly treasures
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the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem
have ye sold unto the sons of Jevanim, that ye might remove them far from their
border
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behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye
have sold them, and will return your retribution 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 men of Sheba, to a
nation far off; for HaShem hath spoken
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Proclaim ye this among the nations, prepare war; stir 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 pruning-hooks
into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.
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Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather
yourselves together; thither cause Thy mighty ones to come down, O HaShem
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Let the nations be stirred up, and come up to the valley
of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about
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Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, tread
ye, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great
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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the
day of HaShem is near in the valley of decision
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The sun and the moon are become black, and the stars
withdraw their shining
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And HaShem shall roar from Zion, and utter His voice from
Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but HaShem will be a
refuge unto His people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel
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So shall ye know that I am HaShem your G-d, 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 sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the
brooks of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth of the
house of HaShem, 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 be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem from
generation to generation
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And I will hold as innocent their blood that I have not
held as innocent; and HaShem dwelleth in Zion
Book 16 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - JOEL - Chapter 004
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