Joel 4 - Tree of Life Version(TLV)

Valley of Jehoshaphat

1“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from exile,

2I will gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. I will plead with them there on behalf of My people, even My inheritance, Israel, whom they scattered among the nations and they divided up My land.

3They cast lots for My people, traded a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, which they drank.”

4“Moreover, what are you to Me, Tyre and Sidon and all regions of Philistia? Did you render retribution for Me? Even if you were rendering retribution for Me, swiftly, speedily, will I return your retribution back on your own head.

5For you took My silver and My gold, and you carried My valuable treasures into your temples.

6“The children of Judah and of Jerusalem you sold to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own territory.

7“Behold, I am rousing them from the place where you sold them, and I will return your retribution on your own head.

8I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off—for Adonai

has spoken.”

9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war. Stir up the mighty men. Let the warriors advance and attack.

10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning knives into spears. Let the weak say, “I am strong.”

11Rouse yourselves and come, all nations around, and gather there. Adonai

, bring Your mighty ones down!

12“Let the nations rouse themselves and go up to the valley of Jehoshaphat. For there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.”

13Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full —the vats overflow— for their wickedness is great!

14Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of Adonai

is near in the valley of decision.

15The sun and the moon become dark, the stars withdraw their brightness.

16Adonai

will roar from Zion and give His voice from Jerusalem. Heaven and earth will shudder, but Adonai

will be a refuge for His people, and a safe place for the children of Israel.

Shalom

in Zion

17So you will know that I am Adonai

, your God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. Then will Jerusalem be holy, and foreigners will cross through her no more.

18It will be in that day, the mountains will drip sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, and all the wadis of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the House of Adonai

and water the valley of Shittim.

19Egypt will become a desolation and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence against the children of Judah, because they shed innocent blood in their land.

20But Judah will be inhabited forever— Jerusalem from generation to generation.

21I will acquit their bloodguilt that I had not acquitted, for Adonai

dwells in Zion.