Joel 3

⁹Proclaim this among the nations:

Prepare war,

stir up the warriors.

Let all the soldiers draw near,

let them come up.

¹⁰Beat your plowshares into swords,

and your pruning hooks into spears;

let the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”

¹¹Come quickly,

all you nations all around,

gather yourselves there.

Bring down your warriors, O Lord.

¹²Let the nations rouse themselves,

and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;

for there I will sit to judge

all the neighboring nations.

¹³Put in the sickle,

for the harvest is ripe.

Go in, tread,

for the wine press is full.

The vats overflow,

for their wickedness is great.

¹⁴Multitudes, multitudes,

in the valley of decision!

For the day of the Lord is near

in the valley of decision.

¹⁵The sun and the moon are darkened,

and the stars withdraw their shining.

¹⁶The Lord roars from Zion,

and utters his voice from Jerusalem,

and the heavens and the earth shake.

But the Lord is a refuge for his people,

a stronghold for the people of Israel.

¹⁷So you shall know that I, the Lord your God,

dwell in Zion, my holy mountain.

And Jerusalem shall be holy,

and strangers shall never again pass through it.

¹⁸In that day

the mountains shall drip sweet wine,

the hills shall flow with milk,

and all the stream beds of Judah

shall flow with water;

a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord

and water the Wadi Shittim.

¹⁹Egypt shall become a desolation

and Edom a desolate wilderness,

because of the violence done to the people of Judah,

in whose land they have shed innocent blood.

²⁰But Judah shall be inhabited forever,

and Jerusalem to all generations.

²¹I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty,

for the Lord dwells in Zion.