| 章 |
| 3:1 |
'For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
|
| 3:2 |
I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehosh'aphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations, and have divided up my land,
|
| 3:3 |
and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and have sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.
|
| 3:4 |
'What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will requite your deed upon your own head swiftly and speedily.
|
| 3:5 |
For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
|
| 3:6 |
You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.
|
| 3:7 |
But now I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will requite your deed upon your own head.
|
| 3:8 |
I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabe'ans, to a nation far off;for the LORD has spoken.'
|
| 3:9 |
Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.
|
| 3:10 |
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears;let the weak say, 'I am a warrior.'
|
| 3:11 |
Hasten and come, all you nations round about, gather yourselves there. Bring down thy warriors, O LORD.
|
| 3:12 |
Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehosh'aphat;for there I will sit to judge all the nations round about.
|
| 3:13 |
Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the wine press is full. The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.
|
| 3:14 |
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
|
| 3:15 |
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
|
| 3:16 |
And the LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.
|
| 3:17 |
'So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwell in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall never again pass through it.
|
| 3:18 |
'And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water;and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the valley of Shittim.
|
| 3:19 |
'Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
|
| 3:20 |
But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
|
| 3:21 |
I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty, for the LORD dwells in Zion.'
|
