Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Parallel translations
- WEB Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
- KJV Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
- BSB Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
- NASB Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
- NLT Thousands upon thousands are waiting in the valley of decision. There the day of the Lord will soon arrive.
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Quick answer
Multitudes gather in the valley of decision as the day of Yahweh draws near. The crowds stand at the threshold of God's decisive judgment.
Overview
Joel beholds vast throngs in the 'valley of decision,' a name stressing the verdict God is about to render. The repeated 'multitudes' conveys the enormous scope of the judgment as the day of Yahweh approaches. This scene of nations awaiting God's sentence underscores the certainty and gravity of final judgment, pressing all to find refuge in the Lord.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Joel 3:2I 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,
- Isa 34:2–8For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.
- Rev 16:14–16for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.
- Phil 3:2Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
- Joel 1:15Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- 2 Pet 3:7But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- Rev 19:19–21I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army.
- Joel 2:1Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:
- Isa 63:1–7Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
- Ezek 38:8–23After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.
- Ezek 39:8–20Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh; this is the day about which I have spoken.
- Ps 37:13The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
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