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For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape,

As the Lord hath said,

And among the remnant those whom the Lord shall call.

 

4For, behold, in those days, and in that time,

When I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

²I will gather all nations,

And will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;

And I will enter into judgment with them there

For My people and for My heritage Israel,

Whom they have scattered among the nations,

And divided My land.

³And they have cast lots for My people;

And have given a boy for a harlot,

And sold a girl for wine, and have drunk.

⁴And also what are ye to Me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render retribution on My behalf? and if ye render retribution on My behalf, swiftly, speedily will I return your retribution upon your own head. ⁵Forasmuch as ye have taken My silver and My gold, and have carried into your temples My goodly treasures; ⁶the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Jevanim, that ye might remove them far from their border; ⁷behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your retribution upon your own head; ⁸and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and; they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off; for the Lord hath spoken.

⁹Proclaim ye this among the nations,

Prepare war;

Stir up the mighty men;

Let all the men of war draw near,

Let them come up.

¹⁰Beat your plowshares into swords,

And your pruning-hooks into spears;

Let the weak say: 'I am strong.'

¹¹Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about,

And gather yourselves together;

Thither cause Thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord!

¹²Let the nations be stirred up, and come up

To the valley of ^[1]Jehoshaphat;

For there will I sit to judge

All the nations round about.

¹³Put ye in the sickle,

For the harvest is ripe;

Come, tread ye,

For the winepress is full, the vats overflow;

For their wickedness is great.

 

¹⁴Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!

For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

¹⁵The sun and the moon are become black,

And the stars withdraw their shining.

¹⁶And the Lord shall roar from Zion,

And utter His voice from Jerusalem,

And the heavens and the earth shall shake;

But the Lord will be a refuge unto His people,

And a stronghold to the children of Israel.

1. That is, The Lord judgeth.

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