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chapter 3
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For
behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back the captivity of
Juda and Jerusalem:
2 I will gather together all nations, and will bring
them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my
people, and for my inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the
nations, and have parted my land.
3 And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy
they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they
might drink.
4 But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon,
and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if
you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon
your own head.
5 For you have taken away my silver and my gold: and my
desirable and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.
6 And the children of Juda, and the children of
Jerusalem you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove
them far off from their own country.
7 Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein
you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.
8 And I will sell your sons, and your daughters by the
hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, a
nation far off, for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 Proclaim ye this among the nations: prepare war,
rouse up the strong: let them come, let all the men of war come up.
10 Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades
into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong.
11 Break forth, and come, all ye nations, from round
about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong
ones to fall down.
12 Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the
valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.
13 Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come
and go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is
multiplied.
14 Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for
the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction.
15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars
have withdrawn their shining.
16 And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his
voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the
Lord shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of
Israel.
17 And you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
dwelling in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers
shall pass through it no more.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
mountains shall drop down sweetness, and the hills shall flow with milk: and
waters shall flow through all the rivers of Juda: and a fountain shall come
forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the torrent of thorns.
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness
destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and
have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem
to generation and generation.
21 And I will cleanse their blood which I had not
cleansed: and the Lord will dwell in Sion.
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