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JOEL
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- 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:
- Beat your plowshares into swords,
- And your pruninghooks into spears:
- Let the weak say, I am strong.
- Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen,
- And gather yourselves together round about:
- Thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.
- 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.
- 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.
- Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision:
- For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
- The sun and the moon shall be darkened,
- And the stars shall withdraw their shining.
- 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.
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