Berean Standard Bible
- 1 "Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,
- 2 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.
- 3 They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
- 4 Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.
- 5 For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.
- 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
- 7 Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
- 8 I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans-to a distant nation." Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
- 9 Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!
- 10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong!'
- 11 Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves. Bring down Your mighty ones, O Yahweh.
- 12 Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.
- 13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.
- 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.
- 15 The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.
- 16 Yahweh will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But Yahweh will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
- 17 Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.
- 18 And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of Yahweh to water the Valley of Acacias.
- 19 Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
- 20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
- 21 For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged." For Yahweh dwells in Zion.
