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Joel 3:15 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. "
Joel 3:15
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13 Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full, the vats 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 are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
16 The LORD will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but the LORD will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
17 “So you will know that I am the LORD, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.
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Joel 3:1
"“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,"
Joel 3:2
"I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,"
Joel 3:3
"and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink."
Joel 3:4
"“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head."
Joel 3:5
"Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,"
Joel 3:6
"and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border."
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