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3 Yahweh says this:
“At that time, I will bring back the people whom their enemies took away from Jerusalem and from other places in Judah.
2 Then in the Valley of Jehoshaphat I will gather together the people of all of the other nations;
there I will judge and punish them
because they scattered my Israelite people
and forced them to go to other countries,
and because they divided up my land among themselves.
3 I will judge them also because they played games of chance to determine who would get each of my people.
They traded some of the Israelite boys for prostitutes,
and they sold some of the Israelite girls to get money to buy wine, and they drank it.
4 You people of the cities of Tyre and Sidon, and you people of Philistia—you have no reason to be angry with me. You are behaving as if you are trying to avenge yourselves on me for something. If that is what you are doing, I will very quickly do the same thing to you. 5 You took the silver and gold and other valuable things from my temple and put them into your own temples. 6 You dragged away the people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah, and you took them far away from their homes and sold them to Greek traders.
7 But I will make it possible for my people to return from the places to which you sold them, and I will do to you what you did to them. 8 Then I will cause people to take some of your sons and your daughters and sell them to the people of Judah! And then they will sell some of them to the Sabean people, who live far away. That will certainly happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.”
9 Proclaim to the people of all nations,
“Prepare for a war!
Summon your soldiers;
tell them to stand in their battle positions.
10 Take your plows and make swords from them;
take your pruning knives and make spears from them.
Even the weak people must also act like they are strong soldiers.
11 All of you people from the nations that are near Judah
must come quickly and gather there.”
But Yahweh, when that happens, send your army of angels to attack them!
12 Yahweh says, “The people in the nations near Judah must get ready and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I will sit as a judge, and I will punish them.
13 They are like crops that are ready for farmers to harvest them;
so strike them as a farmer swings his sickle to cut the grain.
They are like large piles of grapes in the pits where farmers will press them;
so crush them as a farmer tramples on the grapes.
Punish them severely because they are very wicked.
If all of the wicked things that they have done became grape juice, they are so wicked that the juice would make the vats overflow.”
14 There will be huge crowds of people in that Valley of Judgment.
It will soon be the time that Yahweh will punish them in that Valley of Judgment.
15 At that time there will be no light from the sun or moon,
and the stars will not shine.
16 From Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Yahweh will speak forcefully;
his voice will be like thunder,
and his voice will cause the sky and the earth to shake.
But Yahweh will protect his people;
he will be like a strong wall around the people of Israel.
17 Yahweh says, “At that time, you Israelite people will know that I am Yahweh, your God.
I live on Zion, my holy hill.
Jerusalem will be a holy city,
and soldiers from other countries will never conquer it again.
18 At that time, there will be vineyards bearing sweet grapes on the mountains,
and your cattle and goats on those hills will produce plenty of milk.
The streams in Judah will have abundant water,
and a stream will flow from my temple into the Valley of Acacia northeast of the Dead Sea.
19 The armies of Egypt and Edom attacked the people of Judah
and killed many people there who had not done anything that was wrong.
As a result, those countries will become wastelands, with no one living there any longer.
20 But there will always be people living throughout Judea
and in Jerusalem, forever. 21 I, Yahweh, live on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,
and I will not punish people further for killing my people, for which I previously punished them.”