Joel 3:9–14

⁹Announce this among the nations.

Tell them to prepare for battle.

Nations, get your soldiers ready!

Bring all of your fighting men together

and march out to attack.

¹⁰Hammer your plows into swords.

Hammer your pruning tools into spears.

Let those who are weak say,

“We are soldiers!”

¹¹Come quickly, all of you surrounding nations.

Gather together in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.

Lord, send your soldiers

down from heaven!

¹²The Lord says,

“Stir up the nations into action!

Let them march into the valley

where I will judge them.

I will take my seat in court.

I will judge all of the surrounding nations.

¹³My soldiers, swing your sickles.

The nations are ripe for harvest.

Come. Stomp on them as if they were grapes.

Crush them until the winepress of my anger is full.

Do it until the wine spills over

from the places where it is stored.

The nations have committed far too many sins!”

¹⁴Huge numbers of soldiers are gathered in the valley

where the Lord will hand down his sentence.

The day of the Lord is near in that valley.