1 “ In those days and at that time, I will return the riches of Judah and Jerusalem.

For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will judge them for what they did to My people Israel. They have sent My people out among the different nations, and have divided up My land.

I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

3 T hey have drawn names to see who would get My people. They have traded a boy for a woman who sells the use of her body. And they have sold a girl for wine to drink.

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

4 W hat are you to Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the lands of Philistia? Are you paying Me back for something? If you are, I will be quick to pay you back!

Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

5 Y ou have taken My silver and My gold, and brought My riches to your places of worship.

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

6 Y ou have sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, sending them far from their land.

The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

7 S o I am going to move them from the place where you have sold them, and do to you what you have done to them.

Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the sons of Judah. And they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken.

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

9 M ake this known among the nations: Get ready for war! Call your strong men! Gather all the soldiers and let them come up!

Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

10 B eat your plows into swords, and your vine hooks into spears. Let the weak say, “I am a powerful soldier.”

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

11 H urry and come, all you nations on every side, and gather yourselves there. Bring down Your men of war, O Lord.

Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.

12 L et the nations get ready and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat. For there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.

Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

13 U se the long, sharp knife, for the fruit is full-grown. Come and crush the grapes, for the crushing-place is full. They flow over, for their sins are many.

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

14 T housands and thousands are in the valley of God’s punishment. For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of God’s punishment.

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

15 T he sun and moon become dark, and the stars stop shining.

The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

16 T he Lord makes a loud noise from Zion. He lets His voice be heard from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the Lord is a safe place for His people, a strong place to the sons of Israel.

The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

17 “ Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, living in Zion My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and strangers will never pass through it again. God Brings Good to His People

So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

18 “ In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine and the hills will flow with milk. All the rivers of Judah will flow with water. And a river will go out from the house of the Lord to water the valley of Shittim.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.

19 E gypt will be destroyed and Edom will become a desert waste, because of the bad things done to the sons of Judah. They have killed people in the land of Judah who were not guilty of wrong-doing.

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

20 B ut people will live in Judah and Jerusalem forever.

But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

21 I will punish the ones who killed them, whom I have not yet punished, for the Lord lives in Zion.”

For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.