{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/joel/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:54:03.030Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Joel","bookSlug":"joel","chapter":3,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":3,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall turn again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I will also gather all the nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people and mine inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Yea also, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompence? But if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I bring your recompence upon your own head;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompence upon your own head."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Proclaim this among the nations: prepare war, arouse the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Haste ye and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together. Thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Let the nations rouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down, for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is at hand in the valley of decision."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: and Jehovah will be a shelter for his people, and the refuge of the children of Israel."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And ye shall know that I, Jehovah, am your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; and Jerusalem shall be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the water-courses of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, in that they have shed innocent blood in their land."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"But Judah shall abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And I will purge them from the blood from which I had not purged them: for Jehovah dwelleth in Zion."}],"citation":{"inline":"Joel 3 (DBT)","markdown":"[Joel 3](https://primebible.com/dbt/joel/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/joel/3 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}