| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | English Standard Version |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I 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, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and 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. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I 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.” |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.” |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The 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. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17“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. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18“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. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19“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. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the LORD dwells in Zion.” |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. All rights reserved. |
|
    |