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

⁹ Proclaim this among the nations! Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near let them come up. ¹⁰ Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, I am strong. ¹¹ Hurry and come all you nations round about. Gather yourselves there and cause your mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.

¹² Let the nations be aroused and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat (Jehovah's Judgment)! I will sit there to judge all the nations round about. ¹³ Thrust in the sickle for the harvest is ripe! Come and tread for the winepress is full and the vats overflow. Their wickedness is great.

¹⁴ Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! The day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision. ¹⁵ The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars diminish their shining. ¹⁶ Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem. The heavens and the earth will shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

¹⁷ You will know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy and no strangers will pass through (invade) her any more. ¹⁸ It will happen in that day that the mountains will drop sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the brooks of Judah will flow with water. A fountain will come forth from the house of Jehovah and water the valley of Shittim. ¹⁹ Egypt will be desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness. This is because of the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. ²⁰ Judah will abide for a very long time, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. ²¹ I will cleanse (forgive) their blood [guilt] that which I have not cleansed. Jehovah dwells in Zion!