Revised Version 1885

Joel 3:3-14 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

3. and they have cast lots for my people: and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

4. Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head.

5. Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things;

6. the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border:

7. behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head;

8. and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

9. Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war: stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

10. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

11. Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.

12. Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.

13. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, tread ye; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

14. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.