Joel 3:9-21

9Say to the nations far and wide: “Get ready for war! Call out your best warriors. Let all your fighting men advance for the attack.

10Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Train even your weaklings to be warriors.

11Come quickly, all you nations everywhere. Gather together in the valley.” And now, O Lord, call out your warriors!

12“Let the nations be called to arms. Let them march to the valley of Jehoshaphat. There I, the Lord, will sit to pronounce judgment on them all.

13Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread the grapes, for the winepress is full. The storage vats are overflowing with the wickedness of these people.”

14Thousands upon thousands are waiting in the valley of decision. There the day of the Lord will soon arrive.

15The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.

16The Lord’s voice will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth will shake. But the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a strong fortress for the people of Israel.

17“Then you will know that I, the Lord your God, live in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy forever, and foreign armies will never conquer her again.

18In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. Water will fill the streambeds of Judah, and a fountain will burst forth from the Lord’s Temple, watering the arid valley of acacias.

19But Egypt will become a wasteland and Edom will become a wilderness, because they attacked the people of Judah and killed innocent people in their land.

20“But Judah will be filled with people forever, and Jerusalem will endure through all generations.

21I will pardon my people’s crimes, which I have not yet pardoned; and I, the Lord, will make my home in Jerusalem with my people.”