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| | Joe 3:1 | \2:28\"
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| | Joe 3:2 | \2:29\Even upon the menservants and maidservants in those days, I will pour out my spirit.
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| | Joe 3:3 | \2:30\"
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| | Joe 3:4 | \2:31\The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.
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| | Joe 3:5 | \2:32\And it shall come to pass that all who call upon the name of the LORD shall be delivered; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.
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| | Joe 3:6 | \3:1\"
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| | Joe 3:7 | \3:2\I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehosh'aphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations, and have divided up my land,
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| | Joe 3:8 | \3:3\and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and have sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.
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| | Joe 3:9 | \3:4\"
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| | Joe 3:10 | \3:5\For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
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| | Joe 3:11 | \3:6\You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.
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| | Joe 3:12 | \3:7\But now I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will requite your deed upon your own head.
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| | Joe 3:13 | \3:8\I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabe'ans, to a nation far off; for the LORD has spoken."
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| | Joe 3:14 | \3:9\Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.
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| | Joe 3:15 | \3:10\Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior."
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| | Joe 3:16 | \3:11\Hasten and come, all you nations round about, gather yourselves there. Bring down thy warriors, O LORD.
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| | Joe 3:17 | \3:12\Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehosh'aphat; for there I will sit to judge all the nations round about.
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| | Joe 3:18 | \3:13\Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the wine press is full. The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.
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| | Joe 3:19 | \3:14\Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
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| | Joe 3:20 | \3:15\The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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| | Joe 3:21 | \3:16\And 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.
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| | Joe 3:22 | \3:17\"
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| | Joe 3:23 | \3:18\"
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| | Joe 3:24 | \3:19\"
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| | Joe 3:25 | \3:20\But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
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| | Joe 3:26 | \3:21\I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty, for the LORD dwells in Zion."
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