Kniha proroka Joela

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(CPDV - Anglický - Catholic PD)

Joe 3, 1-21

1 For, behold, in those days and in that time, when I will have converted the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will gather all the Gentiles, and will lead them into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And there I will dispute with them over my people, and over Israel, my inheritance, for they have scattered them among the nations and have divided my land. 3 And they have cast lots over my people; and the boy they have placed in the brothel, and the girl they have sold for wine, so that they might drink. 4 Truly, what is there between you and me, Tyre and Sidon and all the distant places of the Philistines? How will you take vengeance on me? And if you were to revenge yourselves against me, I would deliver a repayment to you, quickly and soon, upon your head. 5 For you have carried away my silver and gold. And my desirable and most beautiful, you have taken into your shrines. 6 And you, sons of Judah and sons of Jerusalem, you have sold the sons of the Greeks, so that you might drive them far from their own territory. 7 Behold, I will raise them up from the place into which you have sold them, and I will turn back your retribution on your own head. 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a distant nation, for the Lord has spoken. 9 Proclaim this among the Gentiles: “Sanctify a war, raise up the strong. Approach, ascend, all men of war. 10 Cut your ploughs into swords and your hoes into spears. Let the weak say, ‘For I am strong.’ 11 Break out and advance, all nations of the world, and gather together. There the Lord will cause all your strong ones to meet death.” 12 Let them arise and ascend to the valley of Jehoshaphat. For there I will sit, so as to judge all the nations of the world. 13 Send forth the sickles, because the harvest has matured. Advance and descend, for the press is full, the pressing room is overflowing. For their malice has been increasing. 14 Nations, nations in the valley of being cut to pieces: for the day of the Lord fittingly takes place in the valley of being cut to pieces. 15 The sun and the moon have been darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their splendor. 16 And the Lord will roar from Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem. And the heavens and the earth will be moved. And the Lord will be the hope of his people and the strength of the sons of Israel. 17 And you will know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be holy, and strangers will not cross through it anymore. 18 And it will happen, in that day, that the mountains will drip sweetness, and the hills will flow with milk. And the waters will pass through all the rivers of Judah. And a fountain will go forth from the house of the Lord, and it will irrigate the desert of thorns. 19 Egypt will be in desolation, and Edom will be a wilderness destroyed, because of what they have unfairly done to the sons of Judah, and because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 And Judea will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem for generation upon generation. 21 And I will cleanse their blood, which I had not cleansed. And the Lord will remain in Zion.

Verš 17

And you will know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be holy, and strangers will not cross through it anymore.

Zjv 21:27 - There shall not enter into it anything defiled, nor anything causing an abomination, nor anything false, but only those who have been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb.

Verš 18

And it will happen, in that day, that the mountains will drip sweetness, and the hills will flow with milk. And the waters will pass through all the rivers of Judah. And a fountain will go forth from the house of the Lord, and it will irrigate the desert of thorns.

Am 9:13 - Behold, the days pass, says the Lord, and the plower will overtake the harvester, and the treader of grapes will overtake the sower of seed. And the mountains will drip sweetness, and every hill will be cultivated.

Verš 13

Send forth the sickles, because the harvest has matured. Advance and descend, for the press is full, the pressing room is overflowing. For their malice has been increasing.

Zjv 14:15 - And another Angel went forth from the temple, crying out in a great voice to the one sitting upon the cloud: “Send out your sickle and reap! For the hour of reaping has arrived, because the harvest of the earth has ripened.”

Verš 15

The sun and the moon have been darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their splendor.

Joe 2:10 - Before their face, the earth has trembled, the heavens have been moved. The sun and moon have been obscured, and the stars have retracted their splendor.

Joe 2:31 - The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall arrive.

Joel 3,1 - (Vulg 2,28–29 n.) Proroctvo sa splnilo na Turíce, pozri Sk 2,16–21. V prvých časoch Cirkvi, keď to bolo potrebné na rozširovanie Kristovej náuky, mnohí kresťania dostali zázračné dary Ducha Svätého. – Ale toto proroctvo spĺňa sa podnes, lebo Duch Svätý zostupuje na veriacich pri sviatosti birmovania a on vyučuje a spravuje svätú Cirkev.

Joel 3,3-5 - Prorok prechádza hneď na opisovanie konca mesiášskych čias, na posledný súd; v týchto veršoch pripomína znamenia, ktoré mu budú predchádzať; porov. Mt 24,29; Mk 13,24 n.; Lk 21,25 n. a Zjv hl. 6, 8, 9, 16. – Sion a Jeruzalem mesiášskych čias je Cirkev. – Mesiac sa zatmie a pritom dostane farbu ako Kristova krv. – Pánovu predpoveď, ktorú tu Joel spomína, pozri Abd 17.