1 F or behold, in those days and at that time when I shall reverse the captivity and restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

For lo, in those days, and in that time, When I turn back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and there will I deal with and execute judgment upon them for My people and of My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations and they have divided My land.

Then I have gathered all the nations, And caused them to go down unto the valley of Jehoshaphat, And I have been judged with them there, Concerning My people and Mine inheritance -- Israel, Whom they scattered among nations, And My land they have apportioned.

3 A nd they have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a harlot and have sold a girl for juice and have drunk it.

And for My people they do cast a lot, And they give the young man for an harlot, And the young woman have sold for wine, That they may drink.

4 Y es, and what are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon and all the divisions of Philistia? Will you pay Me back for something? Even if you pay Me back, swiftly and speedily I will return your deed upon your own head,

And also, what ye to Me, O Tyre and Zidon, And all circuits of Philistia? Recompence are ye rendering unto Me? And if ye are giving recompence to Me, Swiftly, hastily, I turn back your recompence on your head.

5 B ecause you have taken My silver and My gold and have carried into your temples and palaces My precious treasures,

In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.

6 A nd have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Grecians, that you may remove them far from their border.

And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the sons of Javan, To put them far off from their border.

7 B ehold, I will stir them up out of the place to which you have sold them and will return your deed upon your own head.

Lo, I am stirring them up out of the place Whither ye have sold them, And I have turned back your recompence on your head,

8 I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off, for the Lord has spoken it.

And have sold your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the sons of Judah, And they have sold them to Shabeans, Unto a nation far off, for Jehovah hath spoken.

9 P roclaim this among the nations: Prepare war! Stir up the mighty men! Let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

Proclaim ye this among nations, Sanctify a war, stir up the mighty ones, Come nigh, come up, let all the men of war.

10 B eat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong!

Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, `I mighty.'

11 H asten and come, all you nations round about, and assemble yourselves; there You, O Lord, will bring down Your mighty ones (Your warriors).

Haste, and come in, all ye nations round, And be gathered together, Thither cause to come down, O Jehovah, Thy mighty ones.

12 L et the nations bestir themselves and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.

Wake and come up let the nations unto the valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I sit to judge all the nations around.

13 P ut in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, get down and tread the grapes, for the winepress is full; the vats overflow, for the wickedness is great.

Send ye forth a sickle, For ripened hath harvest, Come in, come down, for filled hath been the press, Overflowed hath wine-presses, For great their wickedness.

14 M ultitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision, For near the day of Jehovah in the valley of decision.

15 T he sun and the moon are darkened and the stars withdraw their shining.

Sun and moon have been black, And stars have gathered up their shining.

16 T he Lord will thunder and roar from Zion and utter His voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but the Lord will be a refuge for His people and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

And Jehovah from Zion doth roar, And from Jerusalem giveth forth His voice, And shaken have the heavens and earth, And Jehovah a refuge to his people, And a stronghold to sons of Israel.

17 S o shall you know, understand, and realize that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and strangers and foreigners shall no more pass through it.

And ye have known that I Jehovah your God, Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain, And Jerusalem hath been holy, And strangers do not pass over into it again.

18 A nd in that day, the mountains shall drip with fresh juice and the hills shall flow with milk; and all the brooks and riverbeds of Judah shall flow with water, and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and shall water the Valley of Shittim.

And it hath come to pass, in that day, Drop down do the mountains juice, And the hills do flow milk, And all streams of Judah do go water, And a fountain from the house of Jehovah goeth forth, And hath watered the valley of Shittim.

19 E gypt shall be a desolation and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness for their violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Egypt a desolation becometh, And Edom a desolation, a wilderness, becometh, For violence sons of Judah, Whose innocent blood they shed in their land.

20 B ut Judah shall remain and be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

And Judah to the age doth dwell, And Jerusalem to generation and generation.

21 A nd I will cleanse and hold as innocent their blood and avenge it, blood which I have not cleansed, held innocent, and avenged, for the Lord dwells in Zion.

And I have declared their blood innocent, I did not declare innocent, And Jehovah is dwelling in Zion!