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| 3:1 |
"In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
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| 3:2 |
I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
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| 3:3 |
They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine that they might drink.
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| 3:4 |
"Now what have you against me, O Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.
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| 3:5 |
For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.
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| 3:6 |
You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.
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| 3:7 |
"See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.
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| 3:8 |
I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away." The LORD has spoken.
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| 3:9 |
Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
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| 3:10 |
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, "I am strong!"
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| 3:11 |
Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD!
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| 3:12 |
"Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side.
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| 3:13 |
Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow-- so great is their wickedness!"
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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 moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine.
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| 3:16 |
The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the sky will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
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| 3:17 |
"Then you will know that I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her.
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| 3:18 |
"In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the LORD's house and will water the valley of acacias.
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| 3:19 |
But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
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| 3:20 |
Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem through all generations.
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| 3:21 |
Their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, I will pardon." The LORD dwells in Zion!
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