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God Judges the Nations

Announce this among the nations:
    Prepare for war!
Wake up the soldiers!
    Let all the men of war come near and attack.
10 Make your plows into swords.
    Make spears from your hooks for trimming trees.
Let the weak say,
    “I am strong.”
11 All of you nations, hurry.
    Come together in that place.
Lord, send your strong soldiers
    to gather the nations.

12 “Wake up, nations.
    Come to the Valley Where the Lord Judges.
There I will sit to judge
    all the nations on every side.
13 Cut them down like grain
    because the harvest is ripe with sin.
Come, walk on them as you would walk on grapes,
because the winepress is full.
    The barrels are full of their sins and spilling over.
These people are so evil!”

14 There are many people
    in the Valley of Decision.[a]
The Lord’s day of judging is near
    in the Valley of Decision.
15 The sun and the moon will become dark.
    The stars will stop shining.
16 The Lord will roar like a lion from Jerusalem.
    His loud voice will sound like a growl from Jerusalem.
    And the sky and the earth will shake.
But the Lord will be a safe place for his people.
    He will be a strong place of safety for the people of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:14 Valley of Decision This is like the name “the Valley Where the Lord Judges” in 3:2 and 3:12.

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