Joel 3

¹For beholde, in those dayes and in that time, when I shall bring againe the captiuitie of Iudah and Ierusalem,

²I will also gather all nations, and wil bring them downe into the valley of Iehoshaphat, and will pleade with them there for my people, and for mine heritage Israel, whom they haue scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

³And they haue cast lottes for my people, and haue giuen the childe for the harlot, and sold the girle for wine, that they might drinke.

⁴Yea, and what haue you to do with me, O Tyrus and Zidon and all the costes of Palestina? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompence mee, swiftly and speedily will I render your recompence vpon your head:

⁵For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, and haue caried into your temples my goodly and pleasant things.

⁶The children also of Iudah and the children of Ierusalem haue you solde vnto the Grecians, that ye might send them farre from their border.

⁷Beholde, I will rayse them out of the place where ye haue sold them, and will render your reward vpon your owne head,

⁸And I will send your sonnes and your daughters into the hande of the children of Iudah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people farre off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

⁹Publish this among the Gentiles: prepare warre, wake vp the mightie men: let all the men of warre drawe neere and come vp.

¹⁰Breake your plowshares into swords, and your sithes into speares: let the weake say, I am strong.

¹¹Assemble your selues, and come all yee heathen and gather your selues together round about: there shall the Lord cast downe the mightie men.