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Joel 2:29 (NIV)

Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
 

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Joel 2:30 (NIV)

I will show wonders in the heavens
and on the earth,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
 

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Joel 2:31 (NIV)

The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
 

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Joel 2:32 (NIV)

And everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved;
for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
there will be deliverance,
as the Lord has said,
even among the survivors
whom the Lord calls.
 

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Joel 3:1 (NASB)

For behold, in those days and at that time,
When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
 

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Joel 3:2 (NASB)

I will gather all the nations
And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
Then I will enter into judgment with them there
On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
And they have divided up My land.
 

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Joel 3:3 (NASB)

They have also cast lots for My people,
Traded a boy for a prostitute,
And sold a girl for wine so that they may drink.
 

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Joel 3:4 (NASB)

Moreover, what are you to Me, Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying Me with retribution?
But if you are showing Me retribution, swiftly and speedily I will return your retribution on your head!
 

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Joel 3:5 (NASB)

Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples,
 

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Joel 3:6 (NASB)

and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory,
 

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Joel 3:7 (NASB)

behold, I am going to stir them up from the place where you have sold them, and return your retribution on your head.
 

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Joel 3:8 (NASB)

I will also sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans,
'to a distant nation,” for the Lord has spoken.
 

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Joel 3:9 (NASB)

Proclaim this among the nations:
Prepare for holy war; stir up the warriors!
Have all the soldiers come forward, have them come up!
 

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Joel 3:10 (NASB)

Beat your plowshares into swords,
And your pruning hooks into spears;
Let the weak man say, “I am a warrior.”
 

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Joel 3:11 (NASB)

Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations,
And gather yourselves there.
Bring down, Lord, Your warriors.
 

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Joel 3:12 (NASB)

Let the nations be awakened
And come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat,
For there I will sit to judge
All the surrounding nations.
 

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Joel 3:13 (NASB)

Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
Come, tread the grapes, for the wine press is full;
The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.
 

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Joel 3:14 (NASB)

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
 

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Joel 3:15 (NASB)

The sun and moon have become dark,
And the stars have lost their brightness.
 

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Joel 3:16 (NASB)

The Lord roars from Zion
And utters His voice from Jerusalem,
And the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is a refuge for His people,
And a stronghold for the sons of Israel.