3:1 For, behold, in those days and in that time, when I will bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 3:2 I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. And they have parted my land, 3:3and have cast lots for my people and have given a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
3:4 Yes and what are you* to me, O Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Will you* render me a recompense? And if you* recompense me, I will return your* recompense swiftly and speedily upon your* own head.
3:5 Inasmuch as you* have taken my silver and my gold and have carried into your* temples my desirable precious things, 3:6 and have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Grecians, that you* may remove them far from their border, 3:7 behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you* have sold them and will return your* recompense upon your* own head. 3:8 And I will sell your* sons and your* daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off. For Jehovah has spoken it.
3:9 Proclaim you* this among the nations: Prepare war. Stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near. Let them come up. 3:10 Beat your* plowshares into swords and your* pruning-hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong.
3:11 You* hasten and come, all you* nations all around and gather yourselves together. Cause your mighty ones to come down there, O Jehovah. 3:12 Let the nations move themselves and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations all around. 3:13 Put you* in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread you*, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow. For their wickedness is great.
3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision. 3:15 The sun and the moon are darkened and the stars withdraw their shining. 3:16 And Jehovah will roar from Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the heavens and the earth will shake. But Jehovah will be a refuge to his people and a stronghold to the sons of Israel.
3:17 So you* will know that I am Jehovah your* God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy and no strangers will pass through her any more.
3:18 And it will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine and the hills will flow with milk and all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters. And a fountain will come out from the house of Jehovah and will water the valley of Shittim.
3:19 Egypt will be a desolation and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the sons of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
3:20 But Judah will abide everlasting and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 3:21 And I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed. For Jehovah dwells in Zion