Orthodox Jewish Bible

Yoel 3:3-15 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

3. (4:3) And they have cast lots for My people; and have traded the yeledim as barter for zonot, and sold the yaldah for yayin, that they might drink.

4. (4:4) Yea, and what have ye to do with Me, O Tzor, and Tzidon, and all the coasts of Peleshet? Will ye render Me a pay-back? And if ye recompense Me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own rosh;

5. (4:5) Because ye have taken My kesef and My zahav, and have carried into your temples My goodly pleasant things:

6. (4:6) Also the Bnei Yehudah and the Bnei Yerushalayim have ye sold unto the Yevanim (Greeks), that ye might remove them far from their territory.

7. (4:7) Hineni, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own rosh;

8. (4:8) And I will sell your banim and your banot into the hand of the Bnei Yehudah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a Goy far off; for Hashem hath spoken it.

9. (4:9) Proclaim ye this among the Goyim; Prepare milchamah, wake up the gibborim, let all the anshei hamilchamah draw near and attack;

10. (4:10) Beat your plowblades into charavot (swords) and your pruning knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.

11. (4:11) Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye Goyim, and gather yourselves together round about; Hashem, thither cause Thy gibborim to come down.

12. (4:12) Let the Goyim be wakened, and come up to the valley of Yehoshafat; for there will I sit to judge all the Goyim round about.

13. (4:13) Put ye in the sickle, for the katzir is ripe; go in, tread; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their ra'ah is great.

14. (4:14) Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the Yom Hashem is near in the valley of decision.

15. (4:15) The shemesh and the yarei'ach shall be darkened, and the kokhavim shall withdraw their shining.