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1 “For,
behold, in
those days,
and in that
time,
when I restore
the fortunes of Judah
and Jerusalem,
2 I
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,
3 and
have cast lots for
my people,
and have given
a boy for
a prostitute,
and sold a girl
for wine, that
they may drink.
4 “Yes, and
what are you
to me, Tyre
and Sidon,
and all
the regions of Philistia?
Will you repay me?
And if you repay
me,
I will swiftly
and speedily return your repayment
on your own
head.
5 Because
you have taken
my silver and
my gold,
and have carried
my finest treasures into
your temples,
6 and have sold the children of
Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks,
that you may remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will stir them up out
of the place where you have sold them,
and will return your repayment on your own head;
8 and I will sell your sons and
your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah,
and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,
to a faraway nation,
for the LORD has spoken it.”
9 Proclaim this among the
nations:
“Prepare for war!
Stir up the mighty men.
Let all the warriors draw near.
Let them come up.
10 Beat your plowshares into
swords,
and your pruning hooks into spears.
Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
11 Hurry and come, all you
surrounding nations,
and gather yourselves together.”
Cause your mighty ones to come down there, LORD.
12 “Let the nations arouse
themselves,
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;
for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 Put in the sickle;
for the harvest is ripe.
Come, tread, for the wine press is full,
the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the
valley of decision!
For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of
decision.
15 The sun and the moon are
darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
16 The
LORD will roar from Zion,
and thunder from Jerusalem;
and the heavens and the earth will shake;
but the LORD will be a refuge to
his people,
and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
17 “So you will know that I am
the LORD, your God,
dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.
Then Jerusalem will be holy,
and no strangers will pass through her any more.
18 It will happen in that day,
that the mountains will drop down sweet wine,
the hills will flow with milk,
all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters;
and a fountain will flow out from the
LORD’s house,
and will water the valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt will be
a desolation
and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,
for the violence done to the children of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah will be inhabited
forever,
and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 I will cleanse their blood
that I have not cleansed,
for the LORD dwells in Zion.”