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3:1  For then, 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, and I will enter into judgement with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations. They have divided my land,
3:3  and cast lots for my people, and traded boys for prostitutes, and sold girls for wine, and drunk it down.
3:4  What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads swiftly and speedily.
3:5  For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
3:6  You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.
3:7  But now I will rouse them to leave the places to which you have sold them, and I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads.
3:8  I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away; for the Lord has spoken.
3:9  Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, stir up the warriors. Let all the soldiers draw near, let them come up.
3:10  Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weakling say, ‘I am a warrior.’
3:11  Come quickly, all you nations all around, gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
3:12  Let the nations rouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the neighbouring nations.
3:13  Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the wine press is full. The vats overflow, for their wickedness is 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 the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
3:16  The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the Lord is a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
3:17  So you shall know that I, the Lord your God, dwell in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
3:18  On that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water; a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the Wadi Shittim.
3:19  Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.
3:20  But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
3:21  I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty, for the Lord dwells in Zion.