1 quia ecce in diebus illis et in tempore illo
cum convertero captivitatem Iuda et Hierusalem
2 congregabo omnes gentes
et deducam eas in valle Iosaphat
et disceptabo cum eis ibi super populo meo et hereditate mea Israhel
quos disperserunt in nationibus et terram meam diviserunt
3 et super populum meum miserunt sortem
et posuerunt puerum in prostibulum
et puellam vendiderunt pro vino ut biberent
4 verum quid vobis et mihi Tyrus et Sidon
et omnis terminus Palestinorum
numquid ultionem vos redditis mihi
et si ulciscimini vos contra me
cito velociter reddam vicissitudinem vobis super caput vestrum
5 argentum enim meum et aurum tulistis
et desiderabilia mea et pulcherrima intulistis in delubra vestra
6 et filios Iuda et filios Hierusalem vendidistis filiis Graecorum
ut longe faceretis eos de finibus suis
7 ecce ego suscitabo eos de loco in quo vendidistis eos
et convertam retributionem vestram in caput vestrum
8 et vendam filios vestros et filias vestras in manibus filiorum Iuda
et venundabunt eos Sabeis genti longinquae
quia Dominus locutus est
9 clamate hoc in gentibus sanctificate bellum suscitate robustos
accedant ascendant omnes viri bellatores
10 concidite aratra vestra in gladios et ligones vestros in lanceas
infirmus dicat quia fortis ego sum
11 erumpite et venite omnes gentes de circuitu et congregamini
ibi occumbere faciet Dominus robustos tuos
12 consurgant et ascendant gentes in vallem Iosaphat
quia ibi sedebo ut iudicem omnes gentes in circuitu
13 mittite falces quoniam maturavit messis
venite et descendite quia plenum est torcular
exuberant torcularia quia multiplicata est malitia eorum
14 populi populi in valle concisionis
quia iuxta est dies Domini in valle concisionis
15 sol et luna obtenebricata
sunt
et stellae retraxerunt splendorem suum
16 et Dominus de Sion rugiet et de Hierusalem dabit vocem suam
et movebuntur caeli et terra
et Dominus spes populi sui et fortitudo filiorum Israhel
17 et scietis quia ego Dominus Deus vester
habitans in Sion in monte sancto meo
et erit Hierusalem sancta et alieni non transibunt per eam amplius
18 et erit in die illa
stillabunt montes dulcedinem et colles fluent lacte
et per omnes rivos Iuda ibunt aquae
et fons de domo Domini egredietur et inrigabit torrentem Spinarum
19 Aegyptus in desolatione erit
et Idumea in desertum perditionis
pro eo quod inique egerint in filios Iuda
et effuderint sanguinem innocentem in terra sua
20 et Iudaea in aeternum habitabitur
et Hierusalem in generatione et generationem
21 et mundabo sanguinem eorum quem non mundaveram
et Dominus commorabitur in Sion
EXPLICIT IOHEL PROPHETA1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. 3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it .
9 ¶ Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. 17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.