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# Chapter 3
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1 “For behold, in those days and at that time,
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When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,
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2 I will also gather all nations,
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And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
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And I will enter into judgment with them there
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On account of My people, My heritage Israel,
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Whom they have scattered among the nations;
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They have also divided up My land.
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3 They have cast lots for My people,
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Have given a boy as payment for a harlot,
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And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
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4 “Indeed, what have you to do with Me,
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O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia?
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Will you retaliate against Me?
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But if you retaliate against Me,
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Swiftly and speedily I will return your retaliation upon your own head;
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5 Because you have taken My silver and My gold,
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And have carried into your temples My prized possessions.
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6 Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem
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You have sold to the Greeks,
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That you may remove them far from their borders.
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7 “Behold, I will raise them
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Out of the place to which you have sold them,
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And will return your retaliation upon your own head.
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8 I will sell your sons and your daughters
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Into the hand of the people of Judah,
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And they will sell them to the Sabeans,
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To a people far off;
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For the Lord has spoken.”
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9 Proclaim this among the nations:
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“Prepare for war!
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Wake up the mighty men,
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Let all the men of war draw near,
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Let them come up.
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10 Beat your plowshares into swords
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And your pruning hooks into spears;
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Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ ”
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11 Assemble and come, all you nations,
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And gather together all around.
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Cause Your mighty ones to go down there, O Lord.
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12 “Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
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For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
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13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
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Come, go down;
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For the winepress is full,
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The vats overflow—
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For their wickedness is great.”
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14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
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For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
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15 The sun and moon will grow dark,
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And the stars will diminish their brightness.
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16 The Lord also will roar from Zion,
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And utter His voice from Jerusalem;
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The heavens and earth will shake;
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But the Lord will be a shelter for His people,
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And the strength of the children of Israel.
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17 “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
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Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain.
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Then Jerusalem shall be holy,
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And no aliens shall ever pass through her again.”
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18 And it will come to pass in that day
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That the mountains shall drip with new wine,
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The hills shall flow with milk,
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And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water;
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A fountain shall flow from the house of the Lord
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And water the Valley of Acacias.
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19 “Egypt shall be a desolation,
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And Edom a desolate wilderness,
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Because of violence against the people of Judah,
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For they have shed innocent blood in their land.
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20 But Judah shall abide forever,
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And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
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21 For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted;
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For the Lord dwells in Zion.” |