Joel 3

Bishops^{(i) 1} For beholde, in those dayes and in that time when I shall bryng agayne the captiuitie of Iuda & Hierusalem ² I wyll also gather all the gentiles, and cause them to come into the valley of Iehosaphat, and I will pleade with them there for my people and heritage Israel, which they haue scattered amongst the nations, and haue parted my lande ³ And thei haue cast lottes for my people, and chaunged the boy for an harlot, and solde the gyrle for wine, that they might drynke ⁴ And what haue you to do with me O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coastes of Palestine? wyll ye render me recompence? and if you recompence me, I shal swiftly [and] speedyly returne your recompence vpon your owne heades ⁵ For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, my pleasaunt & pretious thinges, & haue caryed them into your temples ⁶ You haue solde also the children of Iuda and the children of Hierusalem to the Gretians, that you might send them farre from their owne countrey ⁷ Beholde, I will rayse them out of that place whither you haue solde them, and wyll returne your recompence vpon your owne heades ⁸ And I wyll sell your sonnes and your daughters into the handes of the children of Iuda, and they shall sell them vnto the Sabeans, to a nation that dwelleth farre of: for the Lorde hath spoken it ⁹ Publishe this thyng among the gentiles, proclayme warre, wake vp the mightie men, let all the men of warre drawe neare and come vp ¹⁰ Breake your plowe shares into swordes, and your sithes into speares, let the weake say, I am strong ¹¹ Assemble your selues and come all you heathen, and gather your selues together rounde about, there shall the Lord cast downe thy mightie men ¹² Let the heathen arise and come vp to the valley of Iehosaphat: for there will I sit to iudge all nations rounde about ¹³ Put in your sithes, for ye haruest is ripe: come ye [and] descende, for the wine presse is full, [yea] the presses ouerflowe: for their wickednesse is multiplied ¹⁴ O people, people [come] into the valley of finall iudgement: for the day of the Lorde is at hande in the valley of finall iudgement ¹⁵ The sunne and the moone shalbe darkned, and the starres shall withdrawe their light ¹⁶ The Lord also shall rose out of Sion, and out of Hierusalem shall he geue his voyce, the heauens and the earth shall shake: but the Lorde wyll be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel ¹⁷ So shall you knowe that I am the Lorde your God dwellyng in Sion my holy mountayne: then shall Hierusalem be holy, and there shall no straungers passe through here any more ¹⁸ And in that day shall the mountaynes drop downe sweete wine, and the hylles shall flowe with mylke, & all the riuers of Iuda shall runne with water, and a fountayne shall come out of the house of the Lorde, and shall water the valley of Sittim ¹⁹ Egypt shalbe waste, and Edom shalbe a desolate wildernesse: for the iniuries [done] to the children of Iuda: because they haue shed innocent blood in their lande ²⁰ But Iuda shal dwel for euermore, and Hierusalem from generation to generation ²¹ I wil also clense the blood of them [that] I haue not clensed, and the Lord dwelleth in Sion