Joel 3

1“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,Cross-references: Deut 30:3 · 2Chr 6:37 · Ps 14:7 · Ps 85:1 · Isa 11:11 · Jer 16:15 · +13 more

2I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,Cross-references: 2Chr 20:26 · Isa 66:16 · Jer 12:14 · Jer 25:31 · Jer 49:1 · Ezek 25:8 · +18 more

3and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.Cross-references: 2Chr 28:8 · Amos 2:6 · Obad 1:11 · Nah 3:10 · Rev 18:13

4“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · Judg 11:12 · 2Chr 21:16 · 2Chr 28:17 · Isa 23:1 · Isa 34:8 · +11 more

5Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,Cross-references: 1Sam 5:2 · 2Ki 12:18 · 2Ki 16:8 · 2Ki 18:15 · 2Ki 24:13 · 2Ki 25:13 · +5 more

6and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.Cross-references: Deut 28:32 · Deut 28:68 · Ezek 27:13 · Joel 3:3 · Joel 3:8

7Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;Cross-references: Judg 1:7 · 1Sam 15:33 · Esth 7:10 · Isa 11:12 · Isa 43:5 · Isa 49:12 · +16 more

8and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for Yahweh has spoken it.”Cross-references: Deut 32:30 · Judg 2:14 · Judg 4:2 · Judg 4:9 · Job 1:15 · Isa 14:1 · +3 more

9Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.Cross-references: Ps 96:10 · Isa 8:9 · Isa 34:1 · Jer 31:10 · Jer 46:3 · Jer 50:2 · +3 more

10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’Cross-references: 2Chr 25:8 · Isa 2:4 · Mic 4:3 · Zech 12:8 · Luke 22:36

11Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.” Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.Cross-references: Ps 103:20 · Isa 10:34 · Isa 13:3 · Isa 37:36 · Ezek 38:9 · Joel 3:2 · +8 more

12“Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.Cross-references: 2Chr 20:26 · Ps 2:8 · Ps 7:6 · Ps 76:8 · Ps 96:13 · Ps 98:9 · +10 more

13Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”Cross-references: Gen 13:13 · Gen 15:16 · Gen 18:20 · Deut 16:9 · Isa 63:3 · Jer 51:33 · +5 more

14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.Cross-references: Ps 37:13 · Isa 34:2 · Isa 63:1 · Ezek 38:8 · Ezek 39:8 · Joel 1:15 · +6 more

15The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.Cross-references: Isa 13:10 · Joel 2:10 · Joel 2:31 · Matt 24:29 · Luke 21:25 · Rev 6:12

16Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:29 · Ps 18:2 · Ps 29:11 · Ps 46:1 · Ps 61:3 · Ps 91:1 · +21 more

17“So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.Cross-references: Ps 9:11 · Ps 76:2 · Isa 4:3 · Isa 12:6 · Isa 35:8 · Isa 52:1 · +13 more

18It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters; and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim.Cross-references: Ex 3:8 · Num 25:1 · Job 29:6 · Ps 46:4 · Isa 30:25 · Isa 35:6 · +7 more

19Egypt will be a desolation and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.Cross-references: Ps 137:7 · Isa 11:15 · Isa 19:1 · Isa 34:1 · Isa 63:1 · Jer 49:17 · +11 more

20But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.Cross-references: Isa 33:20 · Ezek 37:25 · Amos 9:15

21I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed, for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”Cross-references: Isa 4:4 · Ezek 36:25 · Ezek 36:29 · Ezek 48:35 · Joel 3:17 · Matt 27:25 · +1 more