1“Look, in those days and at that time, when I bring back the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will judge them for what they did to my people, to Israel, my own inheritance. They scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
3They cast lots for my people, traded a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine to drink.
4“What do you have against me, Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you trying to get back at me? If you are, I will quickly and swiftly pay you back for what you have done.
5Because you have taken my silver and my gold and carried my finest treasures into your temples,
6and you have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, moving them far from their own land.
7Watch, I will stir them up out of the place where you sold them, and I will pay you back for what you have done.
8I will sell your sons and your daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a distant nation, for Yahweh has spoken it.”
9Announce this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Stir up the strong men. Let all the warriors come near. Let them advance.
10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
11Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.” Bring your mighty ones down there, Yahweh.
12“Let the nations rouse themselves and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.”
13Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ready. Come, trample the grapes, for the wine press is full; the vats overflow because their wickedness is great.
14Crowds and crowds are in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.
15The sun and moon will go dark, and the stars will stop shining.
16Yahweh will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem. The heavens and the earth will shake, but Yahweh will be a safe place for his people, a strong refuge for the people of Israel.
17Then you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, living in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will then be holy, and no foreigners will ever pass through it again.
18On that day, wine will drip from the mountains, milk will flow from the hills, all the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from Yahweh’s house to water the valley of Shittim.
19Egypt will become a wasteland, and Edom will be a deserted wilderness, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, for they shed innocent blood in their land.
20But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem for all generations.
21I will pardon their bloodshed that I had not pardoned, for Yahweh lives in Zion.