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# Chapter 3
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1 “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
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2 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,
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3 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.
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4 “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.
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5 For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
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6 You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
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7 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.
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8 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.”
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9 Proclaim this among the nations:
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Consecrate for war;
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stir 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 a warrior.”
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11 Hasten and come,
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all you surrounding nations,
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and gather yourselves there.
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Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
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12 Let the nations stir themselves up
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and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
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for there I will sit to judge
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all the surrounding nations.
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13 Put in the sickle,
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for the harvest is ripe.
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Go in, tread,
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for the winepress is full.
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The vats overflow,
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for their evil is great.
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14 Multitudes, multitudes,
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in the valley of decision!
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For the day of the Lord is near
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in the valley of decision.
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15 The sun and the moon are darkened,
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and the stars withdraw their shining.
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16 The Lord roars from Zion,
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and utters his voice from Jerusalem,
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and the heavens and the earth quake.
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But the Lord is a refuge to his people,
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a stronghold to the people of Israel.
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17 “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
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who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain.
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And Jerusalem shall be holy,
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and strangers shall never again pass through it.
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18 “And in that day
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the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
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and the hills shall flow with milk,
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and all the streambeds of Judah
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shall flow with water;
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and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
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and water the Valley of Shittim.
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19 “Egypt shall become a desolation
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and Edom a desolate wilderness,
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for the violence done to the people of Judah,
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because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
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20 But Judah shall be inhabited forever,
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and Jerusalem to all generations.
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21 I will avenge their blood,
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blood I have not avenged,
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for the Lord dwells in Zion.” |