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Joel 3 — Bíblia Amplified Bible, 2015 | Gospelmais
21 versículos · Amplified Bible, 2015
1"For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2I will gather together all the nations And bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat (the LORD has judged). And there I will deal with them and enter into judgment with them there For My people, My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations, And they have encroached on My land and divided it up.
3"They have also cast lots for My people, And have traded a boy for a prostitute And have sold a girl for wine that they may drink.
4Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Will you pay Me back for something ? Even if you do pay Me back, I will swiftly and speedily return your deed on your own head.
5"Because you have taken My silver and My gold and have carried My precious treasures to your temples and palaces,
6and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the Greeks, so that you may send them far away from their territory,
7behold, I am going to stir them up from the place where you have sold them , and I shall return your action on your own head.
8Also I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation," for the LORD has spoken.
9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare a war! Stir up the mighty men! Let all the men of war come 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 there; Bring down, O LORD, Your mighty ones (Your warriors).
12Let the nations be stirred And come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I will sit to judge and punish All the surrounding nations.
13Put in the sickle , for the harvest is ripe; Come, tread , for the wine press is full; The vats overflow, for the wickedness is great.
14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision (judgment)! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision .
15The sun and the moon grow dark And the stars lose their brightness.
16The LORD thunders and roars from Zion And utters His voice from Jerusalem , And the heavens and the earth tremble and shudder; But the LORD is a refuge for His people And a stronghold to the children of Israel.
17Then you will know and understand fully that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, And strangers will no longer pass through it.
18And in that day The mountains will drip with sweet wine And the hills will flow with milk; And all the brooks and riverbeds of Judah will flow with water, And a fountain will go out from the house of the LORD To water the Valley of Shittim.
19Egypt will become a waste, And Edom will become a desolate wilderness, Because of their violence against the children of Judah, In whose land they have shed innocent blood.
20But Judah shall be inhabited forever And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21And I shall avenge their blood which I have not avenged, For the LORD dwells in Zion.