Joel 3

1 "For, behold, in those days,

and in that time,

when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

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,

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.

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.

5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold,

and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

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.

7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them,

and will return your repayment on your own head;

8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah,

and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,

to a faraway nation,

for Yahweh has spoken it."

9 Proclaim this among the nations:

"Prepare for war!

Stir up the mighty men.

Let all the warriors draw near.

Let them come up. 10 Beat your plowshares into swords,

and your pruning hooks into spears.

Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’

11 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations,

and gather yourselves together."

Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.

12 "Let the nations arouse themselves,

and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;

for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

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 Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.

15 The sun and the moon are darkened,

and the stars withdraw their shining.

16 Yahweh will roar from Zion,

and thunder from Jerusalem;

and the heavens and the earth will shake;

but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people,

and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

17 "So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God,

dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.

Then Jerusalem will be holy,

and no strangers will pass through her any more.

18 It will happen in that day,

that the mountains will drop down sweet wine,

the hills will flow with milk,

all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters;

and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house,

and will water the valley of Shittim.

19 Egypt will be a desolation

and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,

for the violence done to the children of Judah,

because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

20 But Judah will be inhabited forever,

and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

21 I will cleanse their blood

that I have not cleansed,

for Yahweh dwells in Zion."

Ka Whakawātia e te Atua ngā Iwi Katoa

1 "Nō te mea, nanā, i aua rā, i taua wā

e whakahokia ai e ahau a Hūrā rāua ko Hiruhārama i te whakarau,

2 ka huihuia e ahau ngā iwi katoa,

ka kawea ki raro ki te raorao o Iehohāpata;

ā, ka tohe ahau ki a rātou ki reira mō tāku iwi,

mō tōku kāinga tupu, mō Īharaira

i whakamararatia nei e rātou ki roto ki ngā iwi,

ā, wāwāhia ana e rātou tōku whenua.

3 Ā, kua maka rota rātou mō tāku iwi;

ā, kua hoatu e rātou te tama hei utu mō te wahine kairau,

ā, kua hokona e rātou he kōtiro ki te wāina,

hei inu mā rātou.

4 "Āe rā, he aha koutou ki ahau, e Tāira, e Hairona, e ngā rohe katoa o Pirihitia? E hōmai rānei e koutou he utu ki ahau? Nā, ki te hōmai e koutou, he utu ki ahau, hohoro tonu, kakama tonu tāku whakahoki i te utu ki runga ki tō koutou māhunga. 5 Mō koutou i tango i tāku hiriwa, i tāku kōura, ā, kawea ana e koutou āku mea pai e matenuitia ana ki roto ki ō koutou temepara. 6 Ā, hokona ana e koutou ngā tama a Hūrā, ngā tama o Hiruhārama, ki ngā tama a ngā Kariki, kia matara atu ai rātou i tō rātou rohe.

7 "Nanā, ka ara mai rātou i ahau i te wāhi i hokona atu ai rātou e koutou, ka meinga anō e ahau kia hoki tō koutou utu ki runga ki ō koutou māhunga. 8 Ka hokona anō e ahau ā koutou tama, ā koutou tamāhine, ki te ringa o ngā tama a Hūrā, ā, mā rātou e hoko ki ngā tāngata o Hēpā, ki te iwi i tawhiti." Nā Ihowā hoki te kupu.

Te Whakawātanga i te Raorao o Iehohāpata

9 Karangatia tēnei e koutou i roto i ngā tauiwi:

Kia rite ngā mea mō te whawhai,

whakaohokia ngā mārohirohi,

kia whakatata mai ngā tāngata whawhai katoa,

kia haere mai rātou.

10 Patupatua ā koutou hea parau hei hoari,

ā koutou toronaihi hei tao;

me kī ake te ngoikore, "He kaha ahau."

11 Kia hohoro, ka haere mai,

e ngā tauiwi katoa tawhio noa,

ka huihui i a koutou.

Meinga kia heke iho āu mārohirohi ki reira, e Ihowā.

12 "Kia whakaohokia ngā tauiwi,

kia haere hoki rātou ki te raorao o Iehohāpata.

Ka noho hoki ahau ki reira ki te whakawā

mō ngā tauiwi katoa ā taka noa.

13 Kuhua te toronaihi ki roto,

kua pakari hoki te wīti.

Haere mai, takahia;

kua kī hoki te poka wāina,

pūrena tonu ngā waka wāina;

he nui hoki tō rātou kino."

14 He tini, he tini whāioio

kei te raorao whakaoti tikanga!

Kua tata nei hoki te rā o Ihowā

i te raorao whakaoti tikanga.

15 Ka pōuri te rā me te marama,

ka kore anō te titi o ngā whetū.

16 Ā, ka hāmama a Ihowā i Hiona,

ka puaki tōna reo i Hiruhārama;

ā, ka wiri ngā rangi me te whenua;

otirā ko Ihowā he piringa mō tōna iwi,

he pā kaha mō ngā tama a Īharaira.

Ka Manaakitia e Ihowā Tāna Iwi

17 "Ā, ka mōhio koutou ko Ihowā ahau, ko tō koutou Atua

e noho nei i Hiona, i tōku maunga tapu:

kātahi a Hiruhārama ka tapu,

ā, heoi anō hāereerenga o ngā tautāngata i reira.

18 "I taua rā ka māturuturu iho te wāina hou o ngā maunga,

ka rerengia ngā pukepuke e te waiū,

ka rere ngā wai o ngā awa katoa o Hūrā;

ā, ka pupū mai he puna i roto i te whare o Ihowā,

hei whakamākūkū i te raorao o Hitimi.

19 Hei ururua a Īhipa,

hei koraha a Ēroma, ururua rawa,

mō te mahi tutū ki ngā tama a Hūrā,

mō tā rātou whakaheke i te toto harakore ki tō rātou whenua.

20 Ka noho tonu ia a Hūrā ake ake,

a Hiruhārama, a tērā whakatupuranga, tērā whakatupuranga.

21 Ka mā anō i ahau tō rātou toto kīhai i mā i ahau;

e noho ana hoki a Ihowā ki Hiona."