Yahweh Will Judge the Nations
“For behold, ain those days and at that time,
When I brestore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will agather all the nations
And bring them down to the bvalley of Jehoshaphat.
Then I will center into judgment with them there
On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,
Whom they have dscattered among the nations;
And they have edivided up My land.
3 They have also acast lots for My people,
bTraded a boy for a harlot,
And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.
4 Moreover, what are you to Me, O aTyre, Sidon, and all the regions of bPhilistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will creturn your recompense on your head. 5 Since you have ataken My silver and My gold, brought My desirable treasures to your temples, 6 and sold the asons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks in order to remove them far from their borders, 7 behold, I am going to arouse them from the place where you have sold them and return your recompense on your head. 8 Also I will asell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the bSabeans, to a distant nation,” for Yahweh has spoken.
9 aCall out this message among the nations:
bSet yourselves apart for a war; crouse the mighty men!
Let all the men of war approach, let them come up!
10 aBeat your plowshares into swords
And your pruning hooks into spears;
bLet the weak say, “I am a mighty man.”
11 aHasten and come, all you surrounding nations,
And gather yourselves.
There, bring down, O Yahweh, Your bmighty ones.
12 Let the nations be roused up
And come up to the avalley of Jehoshaphat,
For there I will sit to bjudge
All the surrounding nations.
13 aSend in the sickle, for the bharvest is ripe.
Come, ctread, for the dwine press is full;
The vats overflow, for their eevil is great.
14 aMultitudes, multitudes in the bvalley of decision!
For the cday of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.
15 The asun and moon grow dark,
And the stars lose their brightness.
16 And Yahweh aroars from Zion
And bgives forth His voice from Jerusalem,
And the cheavens and the earth quake.
But Yahweh is a drefuge for His people
And a estrong defense to the sons of Israel.
17 Then you will aknow that I am Yahweh your God,
Dwelling in Zion, My bholy mountain.
So Jerusalem will be choly,
And dstrangers will pass through it no more.
Yahweh Dwells in Zion
18 And it will be in that day,
That the amountains will drip with sweet wine,
And the hills will bflow with milk,
And all the cbrooks of Judah will flow with water;
And a dspring will go out from the house of Yahweh
To water the valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt will become a desolation,
And Edom will become a desolate wilderness,
Because of the aviolence done to the sons of Judah,
In whose land they have shed innocent blood.
20 But Judah will be ainhabited forever
And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 And I will aavenge their blood which I have not avenged,
Indeed, Yahweh dwells in Zion.