Joel 3:14–21

¹⁴Multitudes, multitudes,

in the valley of decision!

For the day of the Lord is near

in the valley of decision.

¹⁵The sun and the moon are darkened,

and the stars withdraw their shining.

¹⁶And the Lord roars from Zion,

and utters his voice from Jerusalem,

and the heavens and the earth shake.

But the Lord is a refuge to his people,

a stronghold to the people of Israel.

¹⁷“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,

who dwell in Zion, my holy mountain.

And Jerusalem shall be holy

and strangers shall never again pass through it.

¹⁸“And in that day

the mountains shall drip sweet wine,

and the hills shall flow with milk,

and all the stream beds of Judah

shall flow with water;

and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord

and water the valley of Shittim.

¹⁹“Egypt shall become a desolation

and Edom a desolate wilderness,

for the violence done to the people of Judah,

because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

²⁰But Judah shall be inhabited for ever,

and Jerusalem to all generations.

²¹I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty,

for the Lord dwells in Zion.”