| 3.1 |
“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, |
| 3.2 |
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, |
| 3.3 |
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. |
| 3.4 |
“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. |
| 3.5 |
Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples, |
| 3.6 |
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. |
| 3.7 |
Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head; |
| 3.8 |
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 Yahweh has spoken it.” |
| 3.9 |
Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up. |
| 3.10 |
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ |
| 3.11 |
Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.” Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh. |
| 3.12 |
“Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations. |
| 3.13 |
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.” |
| 3.14 |
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision. |
| 3.15 |
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. |
| 3.16 |
Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel. |
| 3.17 |
“So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more. |
| 3.18 |
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 Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim. |
| 3.19 |
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. |
| 3.20 |
But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. |
| 3.21 |
I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwells in Zion.” |
