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3:1  “For behold, 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 behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
3:3  and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
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 return your payment on your own head 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 in order to remove them far from their own border.
3:7  Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head.
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: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.
3:10  Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”
3:11  Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
3:12  Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding 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 evil 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 quake. But the Lord is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.
3:17  “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
3:18  “And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the Valley of Shittim.
3:19  “Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
3:20  But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
3:21  I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the Lord dwells in Zion.”