{"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/web/joel/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T21:53:48.100Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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 restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"|Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for Yahweh has spoken it.|"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Proclaim this among the nations: |Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.| Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.|"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"|So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh, and will water the valley of Shittim."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwells in Zion.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Joel 3 (WEB)","markdown":"[Joel 3](https://primebible.com/web/joel/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/joel/3 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}