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| 3:1 |
For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
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| 3:2 |
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 divided my land.
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| 3:3 |
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
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| 3:4 |
Yes, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily I will return your recompense upon your own head;
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| 3:5 |
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.
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| 3:6 |
The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold to the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
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| 3:7 |
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head:
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| 3:8 |
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].
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| 3:9 |
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:
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| 3:10 |
Beat your plow-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong.
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| 3:11 |
Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together around: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
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| 3:12 |
Let the heathen be awakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen on every side.
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| 3:13 |
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, go down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness [is] great.
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| 3:14 |
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of the LORD [is] near in the valley of decision.
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| 3:15 |
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
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| 3:16 |
The LORD also will 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.
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| 3:17 |
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.
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| 3:18 |
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 from the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
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| 3:19 |
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.
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| 3:20 |
But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
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| 3:21 |
For I will cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
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