Joel 3:9-17

The Voice

⁹ Proclaim this among the nations: “Get ready for war.
    Awaken your great warriors.
Let all the soldiers come near the valley, poised for battle.
¹⁰ Hammer your sickles into swords.
    Forge your pruning shears into spears.
For this final battle, even the weakling must say, ‘I am a warrior!’

¹¹ “Hurry up! Join the battle, you nations all around;
    gather in the valley of Jehoshaphat.”
Eternal One, march Your troops to war.

¹² Eternal One: Let the nations awaken
        and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat.
    For that is where I will come Myself and set forth judgment against
        the nations who surrounded and attacked My Israel.

¹³ Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe for judgment.
    Come on and tread the grapes, for the winepress is full.
Indeed, the vats are overflowing with oil, for their evil is great.

¹⁴ The thunder of battle goes up in the valley of decision,
    and the day of the Eternal One is near that valley.
¹⁵ It is time. The sun and moon have become a void of darkness;
    the stars, too, lose their radiance.
¹⁶ The Eternal roars from Zion;
    His voice thunders from Jerusalem.
The earth and the heavens tremble before Him.
    But the Eternal is a hiding place for His people,
    a fortress for the Israelites.

¹⁷ Eternal One: Then you will know that I am the Eternal, your God,
        and I live in Zion, My sacred mountain.
    Jerusalem will be My holy city;
        never again will foreign invaders infiltrate it.