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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1 "Look, now! In those very days and at that time, when I restore prosperity to Judah and Jerusalem, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I will gather all nations, bringing them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I will set out my case against them there, on behalf of my people, my heritage Israel, whom they scattered among the nations, apportioning my land among themselves. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They cast lots for my people— they sold a young boy in exchange for a prostitute, and a girl for wine, so they could drink." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Furthermore, what have you to do with me, Tyre, Sidon, and all the sea coasts of Philistia? Are you taking revenge on me? If you are taking revenge on me, I'll send it back on you swiftly and promptly, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5since you took my silver and gold, carried my precious treasures into your temples, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6and sold Judah's and Jerusalem's descendants to the Greeks, so you can remove them far from their homeland! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Look, I will bring them up from where you sold them, I will turn your revenge back upon you, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8and I will sell your sons and daughters into the control of the people of Judah. And they will sell them to the people of Sheba, a country far away." Indeed, the LORD has spoken." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Declare this among the nations: 'Prepare for war! Wake up your elite forces! Let all the soldiers draw near! Call them up! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Beat your plow blades into swords, and your pruning knives into spears! Let the frail say, "I am strong!" |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Hurry and come, all you gentiles! Gather yourselves together!'" "LORD, cause your mighty army to come down. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Let the nations be awakened and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; because I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Put in the sickle, because the harvest is ripe. Come and go down, because the winepress is full. The wine vats are overflowing, because their evil is great! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Multitudes, multitudes in the Valley of Judgment! For the Day of the LORD is near in the Valley of Judgment! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will stop shining. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"The LORD will roar from Zion, and shout from Jerusalem. The heavens and the earth will shake, but the LORD will be the refuge of his people, and the strength of the people of Israel." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"And truly you will know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no foreigners will invade her again. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18It will come about at that time that the mountains will drip with newly pressed wine, the hills will flow with milk, and the streams of Judah will flow abundantly. A fountain will spring from the Temple of the LORD, to water the Valley of the Acacias. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Egypt will be desolate, and Edom will be a desert, because of violence against the people of Judah since they shed innocent blood in their land. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But Judah will live forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I will acquit their bloodguilt that has not yet been acquitted. For the LORD lives in Zion!" |
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