I will gather all the nationsAnd bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.aJehoshaphat Here understood as “GOD contends”; contrast v. 12. There I will contend with themOver My very own people, Israel,Which they scattered among the nations.For they divided My land among themselves
Word-by-Word Analysis
וקבצתי
608
אתכלהגוים
515
והורדתים
671
אלעמק
241
יהושפט
410
ונשפטתי
855
עמם
150
שם
340
עלעמי
220
ונחלתי
504
ישראל
541
אשר
501
פזרו
293
בגוים
61
ואתארצי
708
חלקו
144
Joel 4:3
Gematria: 2127
ואלעמיידוגורלויתנוהילדבזונהוהילדהמכרובייןוישתו
And cast lots over My people;And they bartered a boy for a whore,And sold a girl for wine, which they drank.
What is this you are doing to Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Are you requiting Me for something I have done, or are you doing something for My benefit? Quick as a flash, I will pay you back;
Word-by-Word Analysis
וגם
49
מהאתם
486
לי
40
צר
290
וצידון
166
וכל
56
גלילות
479
פלשת
810
הגמול
84
אתם
441
משלמים
460
עלי
110
ואםגמלים
170
אתם
441
עלי
110
קל
130
מהרה
250
אשיב
313
גמלכם
133
בראשכם
563
Joel 4:5
Gematria: 2066
אשרכספיוזהבילקחתםומחמדיהטביםהבאתםלהיכליכם
for you have taken My gold and My silver, and have carried off My precious treasures to your palaces;
I will deliver your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them into captivity to a distant nation—for GOD has spoken.
Proclaim this among the nations:Prepare for battle!Arouse the warriors,Let all the fighters come and draw near!
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קראוזאת
715
בגוים
61
קדשו
410
מלחמה
123
העירו
291
הגבורים
266
יגשו
319
יעלו
116
כל
50
אנשי
361
המלחמה
128
Joel 4:10
Gematria: 3500
כתואתיכםלחרבותומזמרתיכםלרמחיםהחלשיאמרגבוראני
Beat your plowsharesbplowshares See note at Isa. 2.4. into swords,And your pruning hooks into spears.Let even the weakling say, “I am strong.”
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כתו
426
אתיכם
471
לחרבות
646
ומזמרתיכם
763
לרמחים
328
החלש
343
יאמר
251
גבור
211
אני
61
Joel 4:11
Gematria: 1954
עושוובאוכלהגויםמסביבונקבצושמההנחתיהוהגבוריך
Rouse yourselvescRouse yourselves Meaning of Heb. uncertain. and come,All you nations;Come togetherFrom round about.There bring downdbring down Meaning of Heb. uncertain. Your warriors, O ETERNAL One!
Let the nations rouse themselves and march upTo the Valley of Jehoshaphat;eJehoshaphat Here understood as “GOD judges”; contrast v. 2. For there I will sit in judgmentOver all the nations round about.
And GOD will roar from Zion,And shout aloud from Jerusalem,So that heaven and earth tremble.But GOD will be a shelter to this covenanted people,A refuge to the children of Israel.
And in that day,The mountains shall drip with wine,The hills shall flow with milk,And all the watercourses of Judah shall flow with water;A spring shall issue from the House of GOD And shall water the Wadi of the Acacias.
Egypt shall be a desolation,And Edom a desolate waste,Because of the outrage to the people of Judah,In whose land they shed the blood of the innocent.
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מצרים
380
לשממה
415
תהיה
420
ואדום
57
למדבר
276
שממה
385
תהיה
420
מחמס
148
בני
62
יהודה
30
אשרשפכו
907
דםנקיא
205
בארצם
333
Joel 4:20
Gematria: 1962
ויהודהלעולםתשבוירושלםלדורודור
But Judah shall be inhabited forever,And Jerusalem throughout the ages.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויהודה
36
לעולם
176
תשב
702
וירושלם
592
לדור
240
ודור
216
Joel 4:21
Gematria: 1821
ונקיתידמםלאנקיתיויהוהשכןבציון
Thus I will treat as innocent their bloodThat I have not treated as innocent;fI will treat as innocent their blood / That I have not treated as innocent Emendation yields “their unavenged blood shall be avenged.” And GOD shall dwell in Zion.