Joel 3:14–21

¹⁴There are huge numbers of people

in the Valley of Decision, ⁿ

because the Lord’s day of judging is near

in the Valley of Decision.

¹⁵The sun and the moon will become dark,

and the stars will stop shining.

¹⁶The Lord will roar like a lion from Jerusalem;

his loud voice will thunder from that city,

and the sky and the earth will shake.

But the Lord will be a safe place for his people,

a strong place of safety for the people of Israel.

¹⁷“Then you will know that I, the Lord your God,

live on my holy Mount Zion.

Jerusalem will be a holy place,

and strangers will never even go through it again.

A New Life Promised for Judah

¹⁸“On that day wine will drip from the mountains,

milk will flow from the hills,

and water will run through all the ravines of Judah.

A fountain will flow from the Temple of the Lord

and give water to the valley of acacia trees.

¹⁹But Egypt will become empty,

and Edom an empty desert,

because they were cruel to the people of Judah.

They killed innocent people in that land.

²⁰But there will always be people living in Judah,

and people will live in Jerusalem from now on.

²¹Egypt and Edom killed my people,

so I will definitely punish them.”

The Lord lives in Jerusalem!