Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Joel 3:8-14 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

8. And I will sell your sons, and your daughters by the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far off, for the Lord hath spoken it.

9. Proclaim ye this among the nations: prepare war, rouse up the strong: let them come, let all the men of war come up.

10. Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong.

11. Break forth, and come, all ye nations, from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down.

12. Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.

13. Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is multiplied.

14. Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction.