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3:1  Look! In those days and at that time,when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
3:2  I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them for the sake of my possession, my people Israel, whom they scattered among the nations. The nations also divided up my land.
3:3  They cast lots for my people and traded boys to pay prostitutes. They sold girls for wine so that they could drink.
3:4  Tell me, what do you have against me, Tyre and Sidon, and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily repay onto your own heads what you have done,
3:5  because you took my silver and my gold, and you carried off my best treasures to your temples.
3:6  You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, in order to send them far from their own borders.
3:7  See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will make what you have done return on your own heads.
3:8  I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away. Yes, the Lord has spoken.
3:9  Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate yourselves for war! Rouse the strong warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
3:10  Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning knives into spears. Let the weakling say, “I am a strong warrior!”
3:11  Come quickly to help, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your strong warriors, O Lord!
3:12  Let the nations be roused. Let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will be seated to judge all the nations.
3:13  Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow, because the nations’ wickedness is so great!
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 be darkened, and the stars will stop shining.
3:16  The Lord will roar from Zion and shout from Jerusalem. The sky and the earth will tremble. But the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
3:17  Then you will know that I, the Lord your God, dwell in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy. Foreigners will not pass through her again.
3:18  In that day the mountains will drip sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the stream beds of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the Lord’s house. It will water the Valley of Acacias.
3:19  Egypt will be desolate. Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of violence they committed against the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
3:20  Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem through all generations.
3:21  I will pardon their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned. The Lord dwells in Zion!