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3:1  ‘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 put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
3:3  They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine to drink.
3:4  ‘Now what have you 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 return on your own heads what you have done.
3:5  For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.
3:6  You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.
3:7  ‘See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.
3:8  I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.’ The Lord has spoken.
3:9  Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
3:10  Beat your ploughshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, ‘I am strong!’
3:11  Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, Lord!
3:12  ‘Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.
3:13  Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow – so great is their wickedness!’
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 no longer shine.
3:16  The Lord will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the heavens 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 hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her.
3:18  ‘In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the Lord’s house and will water the valley of acacias.
3:19  But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
3:20  Judah will be inhabited for ever and Jerusalem through all generations.
3:21  Shall I leave their innocent blood unavenged? No, I will not.’ The Lord dwells in Zion!