1 For see, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will assemble all the nations and lead them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and there I will go to trial with them over my people, my inheritance Israel, whom they scattered among the nations; and they carved up my land.
3 They threw lots over my people; they handed over a boy for a harlot and sold a girl for wine to drink.
4 What are you to me, Tyre and Sidon and all the districts of Philistia? Are you repaying me for some deed? If you are repaying me, I will swiftly, quickly bring your deed back on your own head.
5 You took my silver and my gold and brought my precious and beautiful things into your temples.
6 The children of Judah and of Jerusalem you sold to the Greeks, to remove them far from their own land.
7 I am going to rouse them out of the place to which you sold them, and bring your deed back on your own head.
8 And I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, who will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far off; the LORD has spoken.
9 Announce this among the nations: Sanctify a war! Wake up the warriors! Let all the fighting men come near and march up!
10 Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning knives into spears; let the weakling say, "I am a warrior."
11 Make haste and come, all you nations round about; gather yourselves there. O LORD, send down your mighty ones!
12 Let the nations be roused and go up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will take my seat to judge all the nations on every side.
13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, trample, for the press is full; the vats spill over, so great is their evil.
14 Throngs upon throngs in the valley of decision! For near is the day of the LORD in the valley of decision.
15 Sun and moon turn dark, and the stars hold back their brightness.
16 The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder his voice from Jerusalem; heavens and earth will shake. But the LORD will be a shelter for his people, a fortress for the children of Israel.
17 And you will know that I, the LORD, am your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; Jerusalem will be holy ground, and no stranger will pass through it anymore.
18 In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine and the hills flow with milk, and water will flow in all the ravines of Judah; a spring will go out from the house of the LORD and give water to the Valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt will be a wasteland and Edom a barren desert, for the violence against the children of Judah, in whose land they poured out innocent blood.
20 But Judah will remain forever, and Jerusalem for generation after generation.
21 I will clear their blood that I have not cleared; for the LORD dwells in Zion.