3 “For, behold, in those days,
    and in that time,
    when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
² I will gather all nations,
    and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;
    and I will execute judgment on them there for my people,
    and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations.
    They have divided my land,
³     and have cast lots for my people,
    and have given a boy for a prostitute,
    and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

⁴ “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon,
    and all the regions of Philistia?
Will you repay me?
    And if you repay me,
    I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
⁵ Because you have taken my silver and my gold,
    and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
⁶     and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks,
    that you may remove them far from their border.
⁷ Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them,
    and will return your repayment on your own head;
⁸ and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah,
    and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,
    to a faraway nation,
    for Yahweh has spoken it.”

⁹ Proclaim this among the nations:
    “Prepare for war!
    Stir up the mighty men.
Let all the warriors draw near.
Let them come up. ¹⁰     Beat your plowshares into swords,
    and your pruning hooks into spears.
    Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
¹¹ Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations,
    and gather yourselves together.”
Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
¹² “Let the nations arouse themselves,
    and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;
    for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
¹³ Put in the sickle;
    for the harvest is ripe.
    Come, tread, for the wine press is full,
    the vats overflow, for 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 the moon are darkened,
    and the stars withdraw their shining.
¹⁶ Yahweh will roar from Zion,
    and thunder from Jerusalem;
    and the heavens and the earth will shake;
    but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people,
    and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
¹⁷ “So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God,
    dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain.
Then Jerusalem will be holy,
    and no strangers will pass through her any more.
¹⁸ It will happen in that day,
    that the mountains will drop down sweet wine,
    the hills will flow with milk,
    all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters;
    and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house,
    and will water the valley of Shittim.
¹⁹ Egypt will be a desolation
    and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,
    for the violence done to the children of Judah,
    because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
²⁰ But Judah will be inhabited forever,
    and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
²¹ I will cleanse their blood
    that I have not cleansed,
    for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”