Joel Chapter 3

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back the captivity of Juda, and Jerusalem:
2 I will gather together all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land.
3 And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.
4 But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head.
5 For you have taken away my silver, and my gold: and my desirable, and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.
6 And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem, you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far off from their own country.
7 Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.
8 And I will sell your sons, and your daughters, by the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far off, for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 Proclaim ye this among the nations: Prepare war, raise up the strong: let them come, let all the men of war come up.
10 Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong.
11 Break forth, and come, all ye nations from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down.
12 Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.
13 Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is multiplied.
14 Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction.
15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining.
16 And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Sion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall pass through it no more.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweetness, and the hills shall flow with milk: and waters shall flow through all the rivers of Juda: and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the torrent of thorns. A fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, etc... Viz., the fountain of grace in the church militant, and of glory in the church triumphant: which shall water the torrent or valley of thorns, that is, the souls that before, like barren ground brought forth nothing but thorns; or that were afflicted with the thorns of crosses and tribulations.
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to generation and generation. Judea--and Jerusalem... That is, the spiritual Jerusalem, viz., the church of Christ.
21 And I will cleanse their blood, which I had not cleansed: and the Lord will dwell in Sion.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Quia ecce in diebus illis, et in tempore illo,
cum convertero captivitatem Juda et Jerusalem,
2 congregabo omnes gentes,
et deducam eas in vallem Josaphat;
et disceptabo cum eis ibi super populo meo,
et hæreditate mea Israël,
quos disperserunt in nationibus,
et terram meam diviserunt.
3 Et super populum meum miserunt sortem;
et posuerunt puerum in prostibulo,
et puellam vendiderunt pro vino ut biberent.
4 Verum quid mihi et vobis, Tyrus et Sidon,
et omnis terminus Palæstinorum?
numquid ultionem vos reddetis mihi?
et si ulciscimini vos contra me,
cito velociter reddam vicissitudinem vobis super caput vestrum.
5 Argentum enim meum et aurum tulistis,
et desiderabilia mea et pulcherrima intulistis in delubra vestra.
6 Et filios Juda et filios Jerusalem vendidistis filiis Græcorum,
ut longe faceretis eos de finibus suis.
7 Ecce ego suscitabo eos de loco in quo vendidistis eos,
et convertam retributionem vestram in caput vestrum.
8 Et vendam filios vestros et filias vestras in manibus filiorum Juda,
et venundabunt eos Sabæis, genti longinquæ,
quia Dominus locutus est.
9 Clamate hoc in gentibus,
sanctificate bellum,
suscitate robustos:
accedant, ascendant omnes viri bellatores.
10 Concidite aratra vestra in gladios,
et ligones vestros in lanceas.
Infirmus dicat: Quia fortis ego sum.
11 Erumpite, et venite, omnes gentes de circuitu,
et congregamini;
ibi occumbere faciet Dominus robustos tuos.
12 Consurgant, et ascendant gentes in vallem Josaphat,
quia ibi sedebo ut judicem omnes gentes in circuitu.
13 Mittite falces, quoniam maturavit messis;
venite, et descendite,
quia plenum est torcular, exuberant torcularia:
quia multiplicata est malitia eorum.
14 Populi, populi, in valle concisionis,
quia juxta est dies Domini in valle concisionis.
15 Sol et luna obtenebrati sunt,
et stellæ retraxerunt splendorem suum.
16 Et Dominus de Sion rugiet,
et de Jerusalem dabit vocem suam,
et movebuntur cæli et terra;
et Dominus spes populi sui,
et fortitudo filiorum Israël.
17 Et scietis quia ego Dominus Deus vester,
habitans in Sion monte sancto meo;
et erit Jerusalem sancta,
et alieni non transibunt per eam amplius.
18 Et erit in die illa: stillabunt montes dulcedinem,
et colles fluent lacte,
et per omnes rivos Juda ibunt aquæ;
et fons de domo Domini egredietur,
et irrigabit torrentem spinarum.
19 Ægyptus in desolationem erit,
et Idumæa in desertum perditionis,
pro eo quod inique egerint in filios Juda,
et effuderint sanguinem innocentem in terra sua.
20 Et Judæa in æternum habitabitur,
et Jerusalem in generationem et generationem.
21 Et mundabo sanguinem eorum, quem non mundaveram;
et Dominus commorabitur in Sion.

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