Joel 3

"For, behold, in those days,

And in that time,

When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

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,

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.

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.

⁵Because you have taken my silver and my gold,

And have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

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.

⁷Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them,

And will return your repayment on your own head;

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 Saba,

To a faraway nation,

For Allah has spoken it."

⁹Proclaim this among the nations:

Prepare war.

Stir up the mighty men.

Let all the warriors draw near.

Let them come up. ¹⁰Beat your plowshares into swords,

And your pruning hooks into spears.

Let the weak say, "I am strong."

¹¹Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations,

And gather yourselves together."

Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Allah.

¹²"Let the nations arouse themselves,

And come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;

For there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

¹³Put in the sickle;

For the harvest is ripe.

Come, tread, for the winepress is full,

The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great."

¹⁴Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!

For the day of Allah is near, in the valley of decision.

¹⁵The sun and the moon are darkened,

And the stars withdraw their shining."

¹⁶Allah will roar from Al-Quds,

And thunder from Jerusalem;

And the heavens and the earth will shake;

But Allah will be a refuge to his people,

And a stronghold to Bani-Israel.

¹⁷"So you will know that I am Allah, your God,

Dwelling in Al-Quds, my holy mountain.

Then Jerusalem will be holy,

And no strangers will pass through her any 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 come forth from the house of Allah,

And will water the valley of Shittim.

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.

²⁰But Judah will be inhabited forever,

And Jerusalem from generation to generation.

²¹I will cleanse their blood,

That I have not cleansed:

For Allah dwells in Al-Quds."