Joel 2:31–3:8

31 “The asun will be turned into darkness

And the moon into blood

Before the bgreat and awesome day of the Lord comes.

32 “And it will come about that awhoever calls on the name of the Lord

Will be delivered;

For bon Mount Zion and in Jerusalem

There will be those who cescape,

As the Lord has said,

Even among the dsurvivors whom the Lord calls.

Chapter 3

The Nations Will Be Judged

1 “1For behold, ain those days and at that time,

When I brestore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will agather all the nations

And bring them down to the bvalley of 1Jehoshaphat.

Then I will center into judgment with them there

On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,

Whom they have dscattered among the nations;

And they have edivided up My land.

3 “They have also acast lots for My people,

1bTraded a boy for a harlot

And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

4 “Moreover, what are you to Me, O aTyre, Sidon and all the regions of bPhilistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will creturn your recompense on your head.

5 “Since you have ataken My silver and My gold, brought My precious 1treasures to your temples,

6 and sold the asons of Judah and Jerusalem to the 1Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory,

7 behold, I am going to aarouse them from the place where you have sold them, and return your recompense on your head.

8 “Also I will asell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the bSabeans, to a distant nation,” for the Lord has spoken.