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1 “For look, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I will enter into judgment with them over my people, my inheritance Israel, whom they scattered among the nations.
They divided up my land.
3 They cast lots for my people, traded a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine to drink.
4 What have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all the districts of Philistia?
Are you repaying me for something?
If you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily bring your repayment back on your own heads.
5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried my fine treasures into your temples.
6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks to remove them far from their territory.
7 Look, I will rouse them from the place where you sold them, and I will bring your repayment back on your own heads.
8 I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation, for the LORD has spoken.”
9 Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate a war!
Rouse the warriors;
let all the soldiers draw near and come up.
10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears.
Let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”
11 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather there.
Bring down your warriors, LORD!
12 “Let the nations rouse 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 winepress 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 moon grow dark, and the stars withdraw their brightness.
16 The LORD roars from Zion and raises his voice from Jerusalem;
the heavens and the earth shake.
But the LORD is a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
17 “You will know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.
Jerusalem will be holy, and foreigners will never again pass through her.
18 In that day the mountains will drip sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, and all the watercourses of Judah will flow with water.
A spring will come out of the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom a desolate wilderness, because of the violence against the people of Judah, for they shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 I will vindicate their blood, which I have not vindicated;
and the LORD dwells in Zion.”