New American Bible, Revised Edition

Joel 4:5-12 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

5. You took my silver and my gold and brought my priceless treasures into your temples!

6. You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, taking them far from their own country!

7. Look! I am rousing them from the place to which you sold them, and I will turn your deeds back upon your own head.

8. I will sell your sons and daughters to the Judahites who will sell them to the Sabeans, a distant nation. The Lord has spoken!

9. Announce this to the nations:Proclaim a holy war!Alert the warriors!Let all the soldiersreport and march!

10. Beat your plowshares into swords,and your pruning knives into spears;let the weakling boast, “I am a warrior!”

11. Hurry and come, all you neighboring peoples,assemble there!Bring down, Lord, your warriors!

12. Let the nations rouse themselves and come upto the Valley of Jehoshaphat;For there I will sit in judgmentupon all the neighboring nations.