the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Joel 3:14
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Multitudes, multitudesin the valley of decision!For the day of the Lord is nearin the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near, in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
There are huge numbers of people in the Valley of Decision, because the Lord 's day of judging is near in the Valley of Decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision (judgment)! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision [when judgment is executed].
O multitude, O multitude, come into the valley of threshing: for the day of the Lorde is neere in the valley of threshing.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Crowds fill Decision Valley. The judgment day of the Lord will soon be here—
class="poetry"> "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; and also on male and female slaves in those days I will pour out my Spirit. I will show wonders in the sky and on earth — blood, fire and columns of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and terrible Day of Adonai ." At that time, whoever calls on the name of Adonai will be saved. For in Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim there will be those who escape, as Adonai has promised; among the survivors will be those whom Adonai has called.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is at hand in the valley of decision.
There are many, many people in the Valley of Decision. The Lord 's special day is near in the Valley of Decision.
An uproar and tumult in the valley of decision; for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Thousands and thousands are in the Valley of Judgment. It is there that the day of the Lord will soon come.
Commotion, commotion in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision!
Multitudes, multitudes in valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
[4:14] Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for ye day of the Lord is neere in the valley of decision.
O people, people [come] into the valley of finall iudgement: for the day of the Lorde is at hande in the valley of finall iudgement.
Noises have resounded in the valley of judgment: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of judgment.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
Puplis, puplis in the valei of kittyng doun; for the dai of the Lord is nyy in the valei of kittyng doun.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of the LORD [is] near in the valley of decision.
Crowds, great crowds are in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision!
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Thousands and thousands are in the valley of God's punishment. For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of God's punishment.
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes, in the vale of strict decision, - for near is the day of Yahweh, in the vale of strict decision.
Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction.
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Multitudes, multitudes [are] in the valley of decision, For near [is] the day of Jehovah in the valley of decision.
In the valley appoynted, there shalbe many, many people: for the daye of the LORDE is nye in ye valley appoynted.
"Mass confusion, mob uproar— in Decision Valley! God 's Judgment Day has arrived in Decision Valley.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
multitudes: Joel 3:2, Isaiah 34:2-8, Isaiah 63:1-7, Ezekiel 38:8-23, Ezekiel 39:8-20, Revelation 16:14-16, Revelation 19:19-21
decision: or, concision, Philippians 3:2, or, threshing
for: Joel 2:1, Psalms 37:13, 2 Peter 3:7
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 13:7 - like the dust Isaiah 13:4 - noise Lamentations 1:21 - the day Ezekiel 13:5 - the day Joel 2:2 - A day of darkness Joel 3:12 - valley Zechariah 14:1 - General Acts 2:20 - great 2 Peter 3:10 - the day
Cross-References
The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, "Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?"
And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."
Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live.
If anyone takes a human life, that person's life will also be taken by human hands. For God made human beings in his own image.
"You must therefore make a distinction between ceremonially clean and unclean animals, and between clean and unclean birds. You must not defile yourselves by eating any unclean animal or bird or creature that scurries along the ground. I have identified them as being unclean for you.
Desert nomads will bow before him; his enemies will fall before him in the dust.
Then deep from the earth you will speak; from low in the dust your words will come. Your voice will whisper from the ground like a ghost conjured up from the grave.
The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat hay like a cow. But the snakes will eat dust. In those days no one will be hurt or destroyed on my holy mountain. I, the Lord , have spoken!"
Like snakes crawling from their holes, they will come out to meet the Lord our God. They will fear him greatly, trembling in terror at his presence.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision,.... The same with the valley of Jehoshaphat before mentioned; which shows that not any valley of that name is intended, but a certain place so called from the judgments of God in it; and here named "the valley of decision", because here their judgment will be determined, as Kimchi and Jarchi; and at this time the controversy between God, and his people's enemies, will be decided, and at an end: or "the valley of concision", as the Vulgate Latin version; because in this place, and at this time, the nations gathered together in it will be cut to pieces: or, as others, "the valley of threshing" p; because, as, in Jehoshaphat's time, the Moabites and Ammonites were threshed by the Jews in the valley of Berachah, to which the allusion is; so at this time the antichristian kings and their armies will be threshed and beaten, and destroyed by the men of Judah, God's professing people; see Micah 4:13; these seem to be the words of the prophet, breaking out into this pathetic exclamation, upon a sight of the vast multitudes gathered together in this valley, and slain in it; and the doubling of the word serves to express the prodigious number of them: and this shows that this prophecy refers either to the vast army of the Turks, under the name of Gog, and the great slaughter that will be made of them; and that this valley may be the same with the valley of Hamongog, that is, the valley of the multitude of Gog, where their multitude of slain shall be buried, Ezekiel 39:11; or to that vast carnage of the antichristian kings and their armies at Armageddon,
Revelation 16:14; the Targum is,
"armies, armies, in the valley of the division of judgment:''
for the day of the Lord [is] near in the valley of decision; that is, the great and terrible day of the Lord, to take vengeance on all the antichristian powers, both eastern and western, is nigh at hand, which will be done in this valley.
p בעמק החרוץ "in valle triturationis", Piscatsr.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The prophet continues, as in amazement at the great throng assembling upon one another, “multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision,” as though, whichever way he looked, there were yet more of these “tumultuous masses,” so that there was nothing beside them. It was one living, surging, boiling, sea: throngs upon throngs, mere throngs! . The word rendered “multitudes” suggests, besides, the thought of the hum and din of these masses thronging onward, blindly, to their own destruction. They all “tumultuously rage together, and imagine a vain thing, against the Lord and against His Christ” Psalms 2:1-2; but the place where they are gathered, (although they know it not,) is the “valley of decision,” i. e., of “sharp, severe judgment.” The valley is the same as that before called “the valley of Jehoshaphat;” but whereas that name only signifies “God judgeth,” this further name denotes the strictness of God’s judgment. The word signifies “cut,” then “decided;” then is used of severe punishment, or destruction decided and decreed , by God.
For the Day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision - Their gathering against God shall be a token of His coming to judge them. They come to fulfill their own ends; but His shall be fulfilled on them. They are left to bring about their own doom; and being abandoned by Him, rush on the more blindly because it is at hand. When their last sin is committed, their last defiance of God spoken or acted against Him, it is come. At all times, indeed, “the Lord is at hand” Philippians 4:5. It may be, that we are told, that the whole future revealed to us “must shortly come to pass” Revelation 1:1, in order to show that all time is a mere nothing, a moment, a dream, when it is gone. Yet here it is said, relatively, not to us, but to the things foretold, that it “is near” to come.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. Multitudes, multitudes — המנים המנים hamonim, hamonim, crowds upon crowds, in the valley of decision, or excision: the same as the valley of Jehoshaphat, the place where God is to execute judgment on his enemies.
