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4. THE JUDGEMENT OF THE NATIONS
The judgement announced
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‘For in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
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I am going to gather all the nations and take them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; there I intend to put them on trial for all they have done to Israel, my people and my heritage. For[*a] they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land among themselves.
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They have cast lots for my people; they have bartered the boys for prostitutes, have sold the girls for wine and drunk it.’
Charges against the Phoenicians and Philistines
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‘And you, Tyre and Sidon, what do you expect from me? You too, regions of Philistia? Do you want to take revenge on me? If you were to take revenge on me, I would make it recoil promptly and swiftly on your own heads.
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You who have taken my silver and my gold, who have carried off my rich treasures to your temples,
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you who have sold to the people of Javan[*b] the sons of Judah and Jerusalem, to remove them far from their own frontiers.
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Now I mean to summon them from wherever you have sold them, now I intend to make your crime recoil on your own heads.
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I am going to sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabaeans,[*c] to a distant nation; Yahweh has spoken!’
A summons to the nations
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‘Proclaim this among the nations. “Prepare for war! Muster the champions! Warriors, advance, quick march!
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Hammer your ploughshares into swords, your sickles into spears, let the weakling say, ‘I am a fighting man’.
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Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, assemble there!” (Yahweh, send down your champions!)
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‘Let the nations rouse themselves, let them march to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for I am going to sit in judgement there on all the nations round.
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Put the sickle in: the harvest is ripe; come and tread: the winepress is full, the vats are overflowing, so great is their wickedness!’
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Host on host in the Valley of Decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the Valley of Decision!
The day of Yahweh
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Sun and moon grow dark, the stars lose their brilliance.
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Yahweh roars from Zion, makes his voice heard from Jerusalem; heaven and earth tremble. But Yahweh will be a shelter for his people, a stronghold for the sons of Israel.
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‘You will learn then that I am Yahweh your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be a holy place, no alien will ever pass through it again.
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When that day comes, the mountains will run with new wine and the hills flow with milk, and all the river beds of Judah will run with water. A fountain will spring from the house of Yahweh to water the wadi of Acacias.
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Egypt will become a desolation, Edom a desert waste on account of the violence done to the sons of Judah whose innocent blood they shed in their country.
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But Judah will be inhabited for ever, Jerusalem from age to age.
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‘I will avenge their blood and let none go unpunished’, and Yahweh shall make his home in Zion.
Chapters of Joel
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