“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the
fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and
bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into
judgment 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, 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.
“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. For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have
carried my rich treasures into your temples. You have sold the
people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them
far from their own border. 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. 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.”
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.
Beat your plowshares into swords,
and your pruning hooks into spears;
let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”
Hasten and come,
all you surrounding nations,
and gather yourselves there.
Bring down your warriors, O LORD.
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.
Put in the sickle,
for the harvest is ripe.
Go in, tread,
for the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
for their evil is great.
Multitudes, multitudes,
in the valley of decision!
For the day of the LORD is near
in the valley of decision.
The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
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.
“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.
“And in that day
the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk,
and all the streambeds of Judah
shall flow with water;
and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD
and water the Valley of Shittim.
“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.
But Judah shall be inhabited forever,
and Jerusalem to all generations.
I will avenge their blood,
blood I have not avenged,
for the LORD dwells in Zion.”
