OET-RV GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
OET-RV JOL 3 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21
This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
3 Listen, in those days and at that time
when I return those who were taken away as captives from Yehudah (Judah) and Yerushalem (Jerusalem),
2 then I’ll gather all the nations,
and bring them down to Yehoshafat’s (Jehoshaphat’s) valley.
because they scattered my people—Yisrael (Israel) my inheritance—among the nations,
3 Then they threw dice to decide who’d get my people—
they traded a boy for a prostitute,
≈ and sold a girl for wine so they could drink.
4 Tsor (Tyre), Tsidon (Sidon), and all of the regions of Peleshet, what are you to me?
Are you trying to get even with me?
If you are, I’ll very quickly deflect your actions back on yourselves,[ref]
5 because you took my gold and silver,
and you took my precious treasures into your temples.
6 Then you sold the people of Yehudah (Judah) and Yerushalem (Jerusalem) to the Hellains (Greeks),
so that they’d be taken far away from their homeland.
7 Listen, I’ll stir them up there in the place where you sold them,
and I’ll deflect your behaviour back on yourselves,
8 because I’ll sell your sons and daughters to the people of Yehudah,
and they’ll sell them to people from Sheva—to a faraway nation.”
9 Proclaim this among the nations:
≈ Let all the men of war start coming.
10 Hammer your plough blades into swords
≈ and your pruning hooks into spears.[ref]
Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
11 Hurry and come all you surrounding nations,
Yahweh, send down your warriors.
12 “Let the nations rouse themselves
and come to Yehoshafat’s (Jehoshaphat’s) valley,
because I’ll sit there to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 Swing the sickle, because the harvest has ripened.
Come on, go down, because the wine-pressing pit is full.
The vats overflow, because their wickedness is great.”
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision,
because Yahweh’s day is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon become dark,
and the stars withhold their brightness.
16 Yahweh will roar from Tsiyon (Zion),
≈ and from Yerushalem (Jerusalem) he’ll utter his voice,[ref]
and the heavens and the earth will shake.
17 “Then you will know that I’m your god Yahweh,
living in Tsiyon (Zion), on my sacred mountain.
Then Yerushalem (Jerusalem) will be sacred,
and foreign warriors won’t pass through it again.
18 Then at that time, the mountains will drip sweet wine,
≈ and the hills will flow with milk,
and all of Yehudah’s (Judah’s) streams will flow with water,
≈ and a spring will go forth from Yahweh’s residence and water the Shitim valley.
19 Mitsrayim (Egypt) will become uninhabited,
and Edom will become a lonely wilderness
because of the violence against the people of Yehudah—
they shed innocent blood in their country.
20 But Yehudah will remain forever,
and Yerushalem (Jerusalem) will continue throughout the generations,
21 and I will declare their blood to be innocent (which I hadn’t done previously),
