Joel 3:9-21

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⁹ Proclaim this among the nations:
^(A)Consecrate for war;^[a]
    stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
    let them come up.
^10 (B)Beat your plowshares into swords,
    and ^(C)your pruning hooks into spears;
    let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

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

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

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

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

¹⁸ “And in that day
^(V)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and the hills shall flow with milk,
and ^(W)all the streambeds of Judah
    shall flow with water;
^(X)and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
    and water the Valley of ^(Y)Shittim.

^19 (Z)“Egypt shall become a desolation
    and ^(AA)Edom a desolate wilderness,
^(AB)for the violence done to the people of Judah,
    because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
^20 (AC)But Judah shall be inhabited forever,
    and Jerusalem to all generations.
^21 (AD)I will avenge their blood,
    blood I have not avenged,^{[b]
    (AE)}for the Lord dwells in Zion.”