{"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/kjv/joel/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:41:33.912Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and <i>for</i> my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly <i>and</i> speedily will I return 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 goodly pleasant things:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return 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 people far off: for the LORD hath spoken <i>it</i>."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I <i>am</i> strong."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness <i>is</i> great."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD <i>is</i> near 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":"The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD <i>will be</i> the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"So shall ye know that I <i>am</i> the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>that</i> the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, 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 <i>against</i> the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For I will cleanse their blood <i>that</i> I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion."}],"citation":{"inline":"Joel 3 (KJV)","markdown":"[Joel 3](https://primebible.com/kjv/joel/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/joel/3 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}