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3:1  Yes, 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 take them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I will enter into judgment with them there because of my people, my inheritance Israel. The nations have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries and divided up my land.
3:3  They cast lots for my people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
3:4  And also: Tyre, Sidon, and all the territories of Philistia—what are you to me? Are you paying me back or trying to get even with me? I will quickly bring retribution on your heads.
3:5  For you took my silver and gold and carried my finest treasures to your temples.
3:6  You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks to remove them far from their own territory.
3:7  Look, I am about to rouse them up from the place where you sold them; I will bring retribution on your heads.
3:8  I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation, for the Lord has spoken.
3:9  Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for holy war; rouse the warriors; let all the men of war advance and attack!
3:10  Beat your plows into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Let even the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
3:11  Come quickly, all you surrounding nations; gather yourselves. Bring down your warriors there, Lord.
3:12  Let the nations be roused and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the surrounding nations.
3:13  Swing the sickle because the harvest is ripe. Come and trample the grapes because the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because the wickedness of the nations is extreme.
3:14  Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
3:15  The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will cease their shining.
3:16  The Lord will roar from Zion and make his voice heard from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will shake. But the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the Israelites.
3:17  Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and foreigners will never overrun it again.
3:18  In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will flow with water, and a spring will issue from the Lord’s house, watering the Valley of Acacias.
3:19  Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah in whose land they shed innocent blood.
3:20  But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
3:21  I will pardon their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, for the Lord dwells in Zion.