3 For,
behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the
captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I
will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley
of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my
heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted
my land. 3 And
they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot,
and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. 4 Yea,
and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts
of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me,
swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 Because
ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples
my goodly pleasant things: 6 The
children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto
the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. 7 Behold,
I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will
return your recompence upon your own head: 8 And
I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children
of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off:
for the LORD hath spoken it. 9 Proclaim
ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all
the men of war draw near; let them come up: 10 Beat
your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the
weak say, I am strong.
11
Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together
round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 12 Let
the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there
will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put
ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press
is full, the fats 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 shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16 The
LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and
the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of
his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. 17 So
shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain:
then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through
her any more. 18 And
it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new
wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall
flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the
LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. 19 Egypt
shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the
violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent
blood in their land. 20 But
Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 21 For
I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth
in Zion.