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3:1  For look! In those days, and in that time, when I will return the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
3:2  I will gather all the nations, and I will bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will argue a case against them there concerning my people and my inheritance Israel whom they have scattered among the nations, and my land that they have divided.
3:3  For my people they cast lots, and they traded the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank it.
3:4  What are you to me, O Tyre and O Sidon, and all of the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying to me what is deserved? If you are recompensing me, I will return swiftly and quickly what you deserve on your head!
3:5  For you have taken my silver and my gold, and my beautiful treasures you have carried into your temples.
3:6  And the sons of Judah and Jerusalem you sold to the sons of the Greeks, in order to remove them from their border.
3:7  Look! I am rousing them from the place where you have sold them, and I will return what you deserve on your head!
3:8  I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans and to a nation far away, for Yahweh has spoken.
3:9  Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty warriors; let them approach and come up; let all the men of war approach.
3:10  Beat your cutting tools of iron into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, ‘I am a mighty warrior!’
3:11  Hurry and come, all the nations, from all around, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your mighty warriors, O Yahweh!
3:12  Let the nations be roused and let them come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations from all around.
3:13  Send forth the sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Go tread, for the winepress is full! The vats overflow, because their evil is great!
3:14  Commotion, commotion in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision!
3:15  The sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars have withheld their splendor.
3:16  And Yahweh roars from Zion; from Jerusalem he utters his voice, and the heavens and the earth shake. But Yahweh is a refuge for his people, and a protection for the children of Israel.
3:17  And you will know that I, Yahweh your God, am dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be a place of holiness, and strangers will pass through it no longer.
3:18  And it will happen on that day; the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the channels of Judah will flow with water. A spring from the house of Yahweh will come forth, and it will water the valley of Acacia Trees.
3:19  Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom will become a desolate desert, because of the violence they did against the children of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.
3:20  But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem for all generations.
3:21  I will cleanse their bloodguilt that I did not cleanse, for Yahweh is dwelling in Zion.