Joel 3:9-21 - Yahweh's Judgment In The Valley Of Jehoshaphat

⁹ Proclaim this among the nations:
Prepare for holy war;
rouse the warriors;
let all the men of war advance and attack!
¹⁰ Beat your plows into swords
and your pruning knives into spears.
Let even the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
¹¹ Come quickly, all you surrounding nations;
gather yourselves.
Bring down Your warriors there, Lord.

¹² Let the nations be roused
and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat,
for there I will sit down
to judge all the surrounding nations.
¹³ Swing the sickle
because the harvest is ripe.
Come and trample the grapes
because the winepress is full;
the wine vats overflow
because the wickedness of the nations 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 moon will grow dark,
and the stars will cease their shining.
¹⁶ The Lord will roar from Zion
and raise His voice from Jerusalem;
heaven and earth will shake.
But the Lord will be a refuge for His people,
a stronghold for the Israelites.

¹⁷ Then you will know
that I am Yahweh your God,
who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain.
Jerusalem will be holy,
and foreigners will never overrun it again.
¹⁸ In that day
the mountains will drip with sweet wine,
and the hills will flow with milk.
All the streams of Judah will flow with water,
and a spring will issue from the Lord’s house,
watering the Valley of Acacias.
¹⁹ Egypt will become desolate,
and Edom a desert wasteland,
because of the violence done to the people of Judah
in whose land they shed innocent blood.
²⁰ But Judah will be inhabited forever,
and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
²¹ I will pardon their bloodguilt,
which I have not pardoned,
for the Lord dwells in Zion.