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Good News Translation

Joel 3:1

The Lord says, "At that time I will restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Joel;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Judgments;   The Topic Concordance - Day of the Lord;   Enemies;   Gathering;   Israel/jews;   Nations;   Recompense/restitution;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Joel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Vision;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joel, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jehoshaphat (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joel (2);   Regeneration;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Day of the Lord;   Eschatology;   Gikatilla, Moses Ibn;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yes, in those days and at that time,
Hebrew Names Version
"For, behold, in those days, And in that time, When I restore the fortunes of Yehudah and Yerushalayim,
King James Version
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
English Standard Version
"For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
New American Standard Bible
"For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
New Century Version
"In those days and at that time, when I will make things better for Judah and Jerusalem,
Amplified Bible
"For behold, in those [climactic] days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
Geneva Bible (1587)
For beholde, in those dayes and in that time, when I shal bring againe the captiuitie of Iudah and Ierusalem,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
Legacy Standard Bible
"For behold, in those days and at that time,When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
Berean Standard Bible
Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore from captivity Judah and Jerusalem,
Contemporary English Version
At that time I, the Lord , will make Judah and Jerusalem prosperous again.
Complete Jewish Bible
"After this, I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions;
Darby Translation
For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall turn again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Easy-to-Read Version
"Yes, at that time I will bring back the people of Judah and Jerusalem from captivity.
George Lamsa Translation
FOR behold, in those days and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem.
Lexham English Bible
For look! In those days, and in that time, when I will return the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
Literal Translation
For, behold, in those days and in that time, when I bring again the exiles of Judah and Jerusalem,
American Standard Version
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Bible in Basic English
For in those days and in that time, when I let the fate of Judah and Jerusalem be changed,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
[4:1] For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
King James Version (1611)
For behold, in those dayes and in that time, when I shall bring againe the captiuitie of Iudah and Ierusalem,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For beholde, in those dayes and in that time when I shall bryng agayne the captiuitie of Iuda & Hierusalem,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For, behold, in those days and at that time, when I shall have turned the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem,
English Revised Version
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
World English Bible
"For, behold, in those days, And in that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For lo! in tho daies, and in that tyme, whanne Y schal turne the caitifte of Juda and of Jerusalem,
Update Bible Version
For, look, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Webster's Bible Translation
For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
New English Translation
For look! In those days and at that time I will return the exiles to Judah and Jerusalem.
New King James Version
"For behold, in those days and at that time, When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,
New Living Translation
"At the time of those events," says the Lord , "when I restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem,
New Life Bible
"In those days and at that time, I will return the riches of Judah and Jerusalem.
New Revised Standard
For then, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For lo! in those days, and at that time, - when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back the captivity of Juda, and Jerusalem:
Revised Standard Version
"For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
Young's Literal Translation
For lo, in those days, and in that time, When I turn back [to] the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For take hede: In those dayes & at ye same tyme, when I turne agayne the captyuite of Iuda & Ierusale:
THE MESSAGE
"In those days, yes, at that very time when I put life back together again for Judah and Jerusalem, I'll assemble all the godless nations. I'll lead them down into Judgment Valley And put them all on trial, and judge them one and all because of their treatment of my own people Israel. They scattered my people all over the pagan world and grabbed my land for themselves. They threw dice for my people and used them for barter. They would trade a boy for a whore, sell a girl for a bottle of wine when they wanted a drink.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord says, "At that time I will restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem. 2 I will gather all the nations and bring them to the Valley of Judgment. There I will judge them for all they have done to my people. They have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries and divided Israel, my land. 3 They threw dice to decide who would get the captives. They sold boys and girls into slavery to pay for prostitutes and wine. 4 "What are you trying to do to me, Tyre, Sidon, and all of Philistia? Are you trying to pay me back for something? If you are, I will quickly pay you back! 5 You have taken my silver and gold and carried my rich treasures into your temples. 6 You have taken the people of Judah and Jerusalem far from their own country and sold them to the Greeks. 7 Now I am going to bring them out of the places to which you have sold them. I will do to you what you have done to them. 8 I will let your sons and daughters be sold to the people of Judah; they will sell them to the far-off Sabeans. I, the Lord , have spoken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in those: Joel 2:29, Daniel 12:1, Zephaniah 3:19, Zephaniah 3:20

when: Deuteronomy 30:3, 2 Chronicles 6:37, 2 Chronicles 6:38, Psalms 14:7, Psalms 85:1, Isaiah 11:11-16, Jeremiah 16:15, Jeremiah 23:3-8, Jeremiah 29:14, Jeremiah 30:3, Jeremiah 30:18, Ezekiel 16:53, Ezekiel 37:21, Ezekiel 37:22, Ezekiel 38:14-18, Ezekiel 39:25, Ezekiel 39:28, Ezekiel 39:29, Amos 9:14

Reciprocal: Psalms 53:6 - bringeth Psalms 126:1 - turned again Jeremiah 28:8 - prophesied Joel 2:31 - sun Zechariah 14:12 - the plague wherewith

Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
The Lord God asked the woman, "Why did you do this?" She replied, "The snake tricked me into eating it."
Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel."
Ecclesiastes 4:10
If one of them falls down, the other can help him up. But if someone is alone and falls, it's just too bad, because there is no one to help him.
Isaiah 27:1
On that day the Lord will use his powerful and deadly sword to punish Leviathan, that wriggling, twisting dragon, and to kill the monster that lives in the sea.
Matthew 4:3
Then the Devil came to him and said, "If you are God's Son, order these stones to turn into bread."
Matthew 4:6
and said to him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down, for the scripture says, ‘God will give orders to his angels about you; they will hold you up with their hands, so that not even your feet will be hurt on the stones.'"
Matthew 4:9
"All this I will give you," the Devil said, "if you kneel down and worship me."
Matthew 10:16
"Listen! I am sending you out just like sheep to a pack of wolves. You must be as cautious as snakes and as gentle as doves.
2 Corinthians 11:14
Well, no wonder! Even Satan can disguise himself to look like an angel of light!
1 Peter 3:7
In the same way you husbands must live with your wives with the proper understanding that they are more delicate than you. Treat them with respect, because they also will receive, together with you, God's gift of life. Do this so that nothing will interfere with your prayers.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For, behold, in those days, and at that time,.... Which Kimchi refers to the times of the Messiah; and is true of the latter times of the Messiah, of his spiritual reign yet to come:

when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem: not from the Edomites, Tyrians, and Philistines, that had carried them captive in the times of Ahaz; nor from Babylon, where they had been carried captive by Nebuchadnezzar; for nothing of what is after foretold followed upon the return of these captivities: but this designs the present captivity of the Jews, and the restoration of them to their own land; of which see Isaiah 52:8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For, behold - The prophet by the word, “for,” shows that he is about to explain in detail, what he had before spoken of, in sum. By the word, “behold,” he stirs up our minds for something great, which he is to set before our eyes, and which we should not be prepared to expect or believe, unless he solemnly told us, “Behold.” As the detail, then, of what goes before, the prophecy contains all times of future judgment on those who should oppose God, oppress His Church and people, and sin against Him in them and all times of His blessing upon His own people, until the Last Day. And this it gives in imagery, partly describing nearer events of the same sort, as in the punishments of Tyre and Sidon, such as they endured from the kings of Assyria, from Nebuchadnezzar, from Alexander; partly using these, His earlier judgments, as representatives of the like punishments against the like sins unto the end.

In those days and in that time - The whole period of which the prophet had been speaking, was the time from which God called His people to repentance, to the Day of Judgment. The last division of that time was from the beginning of the Gospel unto that Day. He fixes the occasion of which he speaks by the words, “when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem.” This form was used, before there was any general dispersion of the nation. For all captivity of single members of the Jewish people had this sore calamity, that it severed them from the public worship of God, and exposed them to idolatry. So David complains, “they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, go serve other gods” 1 Samuel 26:19. The restoration then of single members, or of smaller bodies of captives, was, at that time, an unspeakable mercy. It was the restoration of those shut out from the worship of God; and so was an image “of the deliverance from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God” Romans 8:21, or of any “return” of those who had gone astray, “to the Shepherd and Bishop of their souls 1 Peter 2:25. The grievous captivity of the Jews, now, is to Satan, whose servants they made themselves, when they said, “we have no king but Caesar; His Blood be upon us and upon our children.” Their blessed deliverance will be “from the power of Satan unto God” Acts 26:18. It is certain from Paul Romans 11:26, that there shall be a complete conversion of the Jews, before the end of the world, as indeed has always been believed. This shall probably be shortly before the end of the world, and God would here say, “when I shall have brought to an end the “captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,” i. e., of that people “to whom were the promises” Romans 9:4, and shall have delivered them from the bondage of sin and from blindness to light and freedom in Christ, then will I gather all nations to judgment.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER III

The prophecy in this chapter is thought by some to relate to

the latter times of the world, when God shall finally deliver

his people from all their adversaries; and it must be confessed

that the figures employed are so lofty as to render it

impossible to restrain the whole of their import to any events

prior to the commencement of the Christian era. The whole

prophecy is delivered in a very beautiful strain of poetry; by

what particular events are referred to is at present very

uncertain, 1-21.

NOTES ON CHAP. III

Verse Joel 3:1. For, behold, in those days — According to the preceding prophecy, these days should refer to Gospel times, or to such as should immediately precede them. But this is a part of the prophecy which is difficult to be understood. All interpreters are at variance upon it; some applying its principal parts to Cambyses; his unfortunate expedition to Egypt; the destruction of fifty thousand of his troops (by the moving pillars of sand) whom he had sent across the desert to plunder the rich temple of Jupiter Ammon; his return to Judea, and dying of a wound which he received from his own sword, in mounting his horse, which happened at Ecbatane, at the foot of Mount Carmel. On which his army, composed of different nations, seeing themselves without a head, fell out, and fought against each other, till the whole were destroyed. And this is supposed to be what Ezekiel means by Gog and Magog, and the destruction of the former. See Ezekiel 38:1-29.

Others apply this to the victories gained by the Maccabees, and to the destruction brought upon the enemies of their country; while several consider the whole as a figurative prediction of the success of the Gospel among the nations of the earth. It may refer to those times in which the Jews shall be brought in with the fulness of the Gentiles, and be re-established in their own land. Or there may be portions in this prophecy that refer to all the events; and to others that have not fallen yet within the range of human conjecture, and will be only known when the time of fulfilment shall take place. In this painful uncertainty, rendered still more so by the discordant opinions of many wise and learned men, it appears to be my province, as I have nothing in the form of a new conjecture to offer, to confine myself to an explanation of the phraseology of the chapter; and then leave the reader to apply it as may seem best to his own judgment.

I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem. — This may refer to the return from the Babylonish captivity; extending also to the restoration of Israel, or the ten tribes.


 
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