For,
behold, in those days, and in that time, when I
shall bring again the captivity of Judah and
Jerusalem,
02 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.
03 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.
04 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;
05 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold,
and have carried into your temples my goodly
pleasant things:
06 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.
07 Behold, I will raise them out of the place
whither ye have sold them, and will return your
recompence upon your own head:
08 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.
09 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.
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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.
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