1 Yahweh Will Judge the Nations “ 3:1Ch4:1in Heb For behold, in those days and at that time,When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will gather all the nationsAnd bring them down to the valley of 3:2 Lit Yahweh judges Jehoshaphat.Then I will enter into judgment with them thereOn behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,Whom they have scattered among the nations;And they have divided up My land.
3 “They have also cast lots for My people, 3:3 Lit Given Traded a boy for a harlot,And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.
4 Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense on your head.
5 Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My desirable 3:5Lit good things treasures to your temples,
6 and sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the 3:6 Lit Javan Greeks in order to remove them far from their borders,
7 behold, I am going to rouse them from the place where you have sold them and return your recompense on your head.
8 Also I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation,” for Yahweh has spoken.
9 ¶Call out thismessageamong the nations:Setyourselvesapart for a war; rouse the mighty men!Let all the men of war approach, let them come up!
10 Beat your plowshares into swordsAnd your pruning hooks into spears;Let the weak say, “I am a mighty man.”
11 3:11 Or Lend aid Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations,And gather yourselves.There, bring down, O Yahweh, Your mighty ones.
12 Let the nations be roused upAnd come up to the valley of 3:12Lit Yahweh judges Jehoshaphat,For there I will sit to judgeAll the surrounding nations.
13 Send in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.Come, 3:13 Or dominate tread, for the wine press is full;The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of 3:14God’s verdict decision!For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of 3:14God’s verdict decision.
15 The sun and moon grow dark,And the stars lose their brightness.
16 And Yahweh roars from ZionAnd gives forth His voice from Jerusalem,And the heavens and the earth quake.But Yahweh is a refuge for His peopleAnd a strong defense to the sons of Israel.
17 Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God,Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain.So Jerusalem will be holy,And strangers will pass through it no more.Yahweh Dwells in Zion
18 ¶And it will be in that day,Thatthe mountains will drip with 3:18 Lit freshly pressed out grape juice sweet wine,And the hills will flow with milk,And all the brooks of Judah will flow with water;And a spring will go out from the house of YahwehTo water the valley of 3:18 Or acacias Shittim.
19 Egypt will become a desolation,And Edom will become a desolate wilderness,Because of the violence 3:19 Lit of the sons done to the sons of Judah,In whose land they have shed innocent blood.
20 But Judah will be inhabited foreverAnd Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 And I will avenge their blood which I have not avenged,Indeed, Yahweh dwells in Zion.