[1] \2:28\And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will
send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be
prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:
[2] \2:29\And on the servants and the servant-girls in those days I will
send my spirit. [3] \2:30\And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and
on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke. [4] \2:31\The sun will
be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord
comes, a day to be feared. [5] \2:32\And it will be that whoever makes his
prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in
Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among
the small band marked out by the Lord. [6] \3:1\For in those days and in
that time, when I let the fate of Judah and Jerusalem be changed, [7]
\3:2\I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the
valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my
people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the
nations, and of my land which has been parted by them. [8] \3:3\And they
have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for
the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine. [9] \3:4\And
further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of
Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and
suddenly I will send it back on your head, [10] \3:5\For you have taken my
silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and
pleasing things. [11] \3:6\And the children of Judah and the children of
Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send
them far away from their land: [12] \3:7\See, I will have them moved from
the place where you have sent them, and will let what you have done come
back on your head; [13] \3:8\I will give your sons and your daughters into
the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for
a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.
[14] \3:9\Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the
strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up. [15]
\3:10\Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives
into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong. [16] \3:11\Come quickly, all
you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your
strong ones come down, O Lord. [17] \3:12\Let the nations be awake, and
come to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will be seated as judge of
all the nations round about. [18] \3:13\Put in the blade, for the grain is
ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are
overflowing; for great is their evil-doing. [19] \3:14\Masses on masses in
the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of
decision. [20] \3:15\The sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars
keep back their shining. [21] \3:16\And the Lord will be thundering from
Zion, and his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and
the earth will be shaking: but the Lord will be a breastplate for his
people and a strong place for the children of Israel. [22] \3:17\And you
will be certain that I am the Lord your God, living in Zion, my holy
mountain: and Jerusalem will be holy, and no strange person will ever again
go through her. [23] \3:18\And it will come about in that day that the
mountains will be dropping sweet wine, and the hills will be flowing with
milk, and all the streams of Judah will be flowing with water; and a
fountain will come out from the house of the Lord, watering the valley of
acacia-trees. [24] \3:19\Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of
destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because
they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause. [25]
\3:20\But Judah will be peopled for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to
generation. [26] \3:21\And I will send punishment for their blood, for
which punishment has not been sent, for the Lord is living in Zion.
