Joel 3:9-21

Proclaim this message among the nations: “Prepare for war!” Awaken the champions! Let all you soldiers gather, advance, and march. Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, “I am a champion!” Hurry and join the battle, all you surrounding nations. Come and assemble there. YAHWEH, send down your champions, your warring angels! YAHWEH “Let the nations stir themselves up and march to the Valley of YAHWEH’s Judgment. There I will sit in judgment on all the surrounding nations. “Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe for judgment. Come and tread the grapes of wrath. The winepress is full and the vats are overflowing for their wickedness is so great!” Multitudes! So many multitudes in the Valley of Decision! For the day of YAHWEH is near in the Valley of the Verdict. YAHWEH The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars no longer shine. YAHWEH roars from Zion, and his voice thunders from Jerusalem; heaven and earth tremble. But YAHWEH will be a shelter for his people, a faithful fortress for Israel. “Then you will know that I am YAHWEH your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be a sanctuary, and foreigners will never conquer it again. A time is coming when the mountains will drip with new wine and the hills will flow with milk, and all the arid streambeds of Judah will run with water year-round. A fountain will spring from YAHWEH’s temple and descend to the valley of acacia trees. “Egypt will become a desert and Edom a desolate wilderness because of the atrocious acts of violence they committed against the people of Judah, whose innocent blood they shed in their land. I will avenge their blood and not spare the guilty, but Judah will be inhabited forever, Jerusalem from generation to generation, and YAHWEH will dwell in Zion.”