Joel 3

1 Behold, in those days and at that time, when I return the exiles of Judah and Jerusalem,

That there! in the days those and at the time that when (I will cause to turn back *Q(K)*) [the] captivity of Judah and Jerusalem.

2 I will gather all the nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I will judge them there, because of my people and my inheritance Israel, whom they scattered among the nations, and because they divided up my land.

And I will gather all the nations and I will bring down them to [the] valley of Jehoshaphat and I will enter into judgment with them there on people my and inheritance my Israel which they have scattered among the nations and land my they have divided up.

3 They cast lots for my people, traded a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine so they could drink.

And to people my they have cast a lot and they have exchanged the boy for the prostitute and the girl they have sold for wine and they have drunk.

4 Now, why are you angry at me, Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? Even if you do repay me, I will immediately return your retribution on your own head.

And also what? [are] you to me O Tyre and Sidon and all [the] territories of Philistia ¿ recompense [are] you repaying to me and or? making recompense [are] you to me swift quickly I will return recompense your on head your.

5 For you took my silver and my gold, and you brought my precious treasures into your temples.

That silver my and gold my you took and desirable things my good you took to own temples your.

6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, in order to remove them far from their territory.

And [the] people of Judah and [the] people of Jerusalem you sold to [the] people of the Greeks so as to remove far away them from on own territory their.

7 Look, I am about to stir them up, out of the place where you sold them, and will return payment on your own head.

Here I [am] about to rouse them from the place where you sold them there and I will return recompense your on head your.

8 I will sell your sons and your daughters, by the hand of the people of Judah. They will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off, for Yahweh has spoken.”

And I will sell sons your and daughters your in [the] hand of [the] people of Judah and they will sell them to [the] Sabeans to a nation distant for Yahweh he has spoken.

9 Proclaim this among the nations, “Prepare yourselves for war, rouse the mighty men, let them come near, let all the men of battle come up.

Proclaim this among the nations consecrate a war rouse the warriors let them draw near let them go up all [the] men of war.

10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'

Beat plowshares your into swords and pruning knives your into spears the weak [man] let him say [am] a warrior I.

11 Hurry and come, all you nearby nations, gather yourselves together there. Yahweh, bring down your mighty warriors.

Hurry and come O all the nations from round about and they will gather there bring down O Yahweh warriors your.

12 Let the nations wake themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. For there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

Let them be roused and they may go up the nations to [the] valley of Jehoshaphat for there I will sit to judge all the nations from round about.

13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, crush the grapes, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their wickedness is enormous.”

Send out [the] sickle for it has grown ripe [the] harvest come tread for it is full [the] winepress they are overflowing the wine-vats for [is] great evil their.

14 There is a tumult, a tumult in the Valley of Judgment. For the day of Yahweh is near in the Valley of Judgment.

Multitudes multitudes [are] in [the] valley of decision for [is] near [the] day of Yahweh in [the] valley of decision.

15 The sun and the moon become dark, the stars keep back their brightness.

Sun and moon they have become dark and [the] stars they have withdrawn brightness their.

16 Yahweh will roar from Zion, and raise his voice from Jerusalem. The heavens and earth will shake, but Yahweh will be a shelter for his people, and a fortress for the people of Israel.

And Yahweh from Zion he will roar and from Jerusalem he will give forth voice his and they will shake heaven and earth and Yahweh [will be] a refuge for people his and a stronghold for [the] people of Israel.

17 “So you will know that I am Yahweh your God who lives in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no army will march through her again.

And you will know that I [am] Yahweh God your [who] dwells in Zion [the] mountain of holiness my and it will be Jerusalem a holy place and strangers not they will pass in it again.

18 It will come about on that day that the mountains will drip with sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with water, and a fountain will come from the house of Yahweh and water the Valley of Shittim.

And it will be on the day that they will drip the mountains sweet wine and the hills they will go milk and all [the] ravines of Judah they will go water and a spring from [the] house of Yahweh it will go forth and it will water [the] wadi of Shittim.

19 Egypt will become an abandoned devastation, and Edom will become an abandoned wilderness, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, because they shed innocent blood in their land.

Egypt a desolation it will become and Edom a wilderness of desolation it will become from [the] violence of [the] people of Judah whom they shed blood innocent in land their.

20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem will be inhabited from generation to generation.

And Judah for ever it will remain and Jerusalem to a generation and a generation.

21 I will avenge their blood that I have not yet avenged, for Yahweh lives in Zion.”

And I will leave unpunished blood their [which] not I left unpunished and Yahweh [is] dwelling in Zion.