⁹ Proclaim this among the nations:
    Prepare for war!^(A)
Rouse the warriors!^(B)
    Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
¹⁰ Beat your plowshares into swords
    and your pruning hooks^(C) into spears.^(D)
Let the weakling^(E) say,
    “I am strong!”^(F)
11 Come quickly, all you nations from every side,
    and assemble^(G) there.

Bring down your warriors,^(H) Lord!

¹² “Let the nations be roused;
    let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat,^(I)
for there I will sit
    to judge^(J) all the nations on every side.
¹³ Swing the sickle,^(K)
    for the harvest^(L) is ripe.
Come, trample the grapes,^(M)
    for the winepress^(N) is full
    and the vats overflow—
so great is their wickedness!”

¹⁴ Multitudes,^(O) multitudes
    in the valley^(P) of decision!
For the day of the Lord^(Q) is near
    in the valley of decision.^(R)

¹¹ But now many nations
    are gathered against you.
They say, “Let her be defiled,
    let our eyes gloat^(A) over Zion!”
¹² But they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,^(B)
    that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
¹³ “Rise and thresh,^(C) Daughter Zion,
    for I will give you horns of iron;
I will give you hooves of bronze,
    and you will break to pieces many nations.”^(D)
You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the Lord,^(E)
    their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

⁸ The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations,
    in the midst of many peoples,
like a lion among the beasts of the forest,^(A)
    like a young lion among flocks of sheep,
which mauls and mangles^(B) as it goes,
    and no one can rescue.^(C)

¹⁵ I will take vengeance^(A) in anger and wrath
    on the nations that have not obeyed me.”