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| 3:1 |
For then, 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 the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, 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. They have divided my land,
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| 3:3 |
and cast lots for my people, and traded boys for prostitutes, and sold girls for wine, and drunk it down.
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| 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 turn your deeds back upon your own heads swiftly and speedily.
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| 3:5 |
For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.
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| 3:6 |
You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.
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| 3:7 |
But now I will rouse them to leave the places to which you have sold them, and I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads.
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| 3:8 |
I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away; for the LORD has spoken.
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| 3:9 |
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| 3:10 |
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, "I am a warrior."
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| 3:11 |
Come quickly, all you nations all around, gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.
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| 3:12 |
Let the nations rouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the neighboring nations.
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| 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.
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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 are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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| 3:16 |
The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the LORD is a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
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| 3:17 |
So you shall know that I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.
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| 3:18 |
In that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water; a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Wadi Shittim.
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| 3:19 |
Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood.
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| 3:20 |
But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
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| 3:21 |
I will avenge their blood, and I will not clear the guilty, for the LORD dwells in Zion.
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