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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For look! In those days and at that time I will return the exiles to Judah and Jerusalem. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Then I will gather all the nations, and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. I will enter into judgment against them there concerning my people Israel who are my inheritance, whom they scattered among the nations. They partitioned my land, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon? Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? I will very quickly repay you for what you have done! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them. I will repay you for what you have done! |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah. They will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away. Indeed, the LORD has spoken! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for a holy war! Call out the warriors! Let all these fighting men approach and attack! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, 'I too am a warrior!' |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Lend your aid and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves to that place." Bring down, O LORD, your warriors! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Let the nations be roused and let them go up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit in judgment on all the surrounding nations. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Rush forth with the sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Come, stomp the grapes, for the winepress is full! The vats overflow. Indeed, their evil is great! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Crowds, great crowds are 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 moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The LORD roars from Zion; from Jerusalem his voice bellows out. The heavens and the earth shake. But the LORD is a refuge for his people; he is a stronghold for the citizens of Israel. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17You will be convinced that I the LORD am your God, dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy--conquering armies will no longer pass through it. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the LORD, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But Judah will reside securely forever, and Jerusalem will be secure from one generation to the next. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I will avenge their blood which I had not previously acquitted. It is the LORD who dwells in Zion! |
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