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

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 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 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 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!

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 near the day of Jehovah in the valley of decision.

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

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

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 “ 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

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 “ 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 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 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 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 people will live in Judah and Jerusalem forever.

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

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

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