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3 : 1 For behold,in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
3 : 2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. AndI will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
3 : 3 andhave cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
3 : 4 What are you to me,O Tyre and Sidon, and allthe regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back,I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
3 : 5 Foryou have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
3 : 6 You have soldthe people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
3 : 7 Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, andI will return your payment on your own head.
3 : 8 I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to theSabeans, to a nation far away, for theLordhas spoken.
3 : 9 Proclaim this among the nations:Consecrate for war;stir up the mighty men.Let all the men of war draw near;let them come up.
3 : 10 Beat your plowshares into swords,andyour pruning hooks into spears;let the weak say,I am a warrior.
3 : 11 Hasten and come,all you surrounding nations,and gather yourselves there.Bring down your warriors, OLord.
3 : 12 Let the nations stir themselves upand come up tothe Valley of Jehoshaphat;for there I will sit to judgeall the surrounding nations.
3 : 13 Put in the sickle,for the harvest is ripe.Go in, tread,for the winepress is full.The vats overflow,for their evil is great.
3 : 14 Multitudes, multitudes,in the valley of decision!Forthe day of theLordis nearin the valley of decision.
3 : 15 The sun and the moon are darkened,and the stars withdraw their shining.
3 : 16 TheLordroars from Zion,andutters his voice from Jerusalem,and the heavens and the earth quake.But theLordisa refuge to his people,a stronghold to the people of Israel.
3 : 17 So you shall know that I am theLordyour God,who dwells in Zion,my holy mountain.And Jerusalem shall be holy,andstrangers shall never again pass through it.
3 : 18 And in that daythe mountains shall drip sweet wine,and the hills shall flow with milk,andall the streambeds of Judahshall flow with water;and a fountain shall come forth from the house of theLordand water the Valley ofShittim.
3 : 19 Egypt shall become a desolationandEdom a desolate wilderness,for the violence done to the people of Judah,because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
3 : 20 But Judah shall be inhabited forever,and Jerusalem to all generations.
3 : 21 I will avenge their blood,blood I have not avenged,for theLorddwells in Zion.