Joel 3:9-17

Names of God Bible

⁹ Announce this among the nations:
    Prepare yourselves for war.
        Wake up the warriors.
            Have all the warriors come near and attack.
¹⁰ Hammer your plowblades into swords
    and your pruning shears into spears.
        Weaklings should say that they are warriors.

¹¹ Hurry from every direction, and gather there, all you nations.
    O Yahweh, bring your soldiers.
¹² Wake up, you nations.
    Come to the valley of Jehoshaphat.
        There I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

¹³ Cut them down like grain.
    The harvest is ripe.
    Stomp on them as you would stomp on grapes.
    The winepress is full.
    The vats overflow.
        The nations are very wicked.
¹⁴ There are many, many people in the valley of decision.
    The day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.
¹⁵ The sun and the moon will turn dark.
    The stars will no longer shine.
¹⁶ Yahweh will roar from Zion,
    and his voice will thunder from Jerusalem.
        The sky and the earth will shake.
    Yahweh will be a Machseh for his people.
    He will be a stronghold for the people of Israel.

¹⁷ “You will know that I am Yahweh your Elohim.
    I live on my holy mountain, Zion.
        Jerusalem will be holy.
            Foreigners will never invade it again.