“The sound of an uproar from the city!
    A sound from the temple!
The sound of the Lord,
    (A)rendering recompense to his enemies!

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Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and (A)I will return your payment on your own head. I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the (B)Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.”

Proclaim this among the nations:
(C)Consecrate for war;[a]
    stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
    let them come up.
10 (D)Beat your plowshares into swords,
    and (E)your pruning hooks into spears;
    let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

11 (F)Hasten and come,
    all you surrounding nations,
    and gather yourselves there.
(G)Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
12 Let the nations stir themselves up
    and come up to (H)the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
(I)for there I will sit to judge
    all the surrounding nations.

13 (J)Put in the sickle,
    (K)for the harvest is ripe.
(L)Go in, tread,
    (M)for the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
    for their evil is great.

14 Multitudes, multitudes,
    in the valley of decision!
For (N)the day of the Lord is near
    in the valley of decision.
15 (O)The sun and the moon are darkened,
    and the stars withdraw their shining.

16 (P)The Lord roars from Zion,
    and (Q)utters his voice from Jerusalem,
    (R)and the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is (S)a refuge to his people,
    a stronghold to the people of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:9 Or Consecrate a war

Judgment on Israel's Neighbors

And he said:

(A)“The Lord roars from Zion
    and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
(B)the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
    and the (C)top of (D)Carmel withers.”

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(A)For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

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who say, “Keep to yourself,
    do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
(A)These are a smoke in my nostrils,
    a fire that burns all the day.
Behold, (B)it is written before me:
    (C)“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
(D)I will indeed repay into their lap
    both your iniquities (E)and your fathers' iniquities together,
says the Lord;
(F)because they made offerings on the mountains
    (G)and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
    payment for their former deeds.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:7 Or I will first measure their payment into their lap

18 (A)According to their deeds, so will he repay,
    wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies;
    (B)to the coastlands he will render repayment.

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