Yahweh’s Judgment on the Nations
1 For look! In those days, and in that time, when I will return the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
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I will gather all the nations, and I will bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will argue {a case against them} there concerning my people and my inheritance Israel whom they have scattered among the nations, and my land [that] they have divided.
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For my people they cast lots, and {they traded} the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank [it].
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What [are] you to me, [O] Tyre and [O] Sidon, and all of the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying to me what is deserved? If you [are] recompensing me, I will return swiftly [and] quickly what you deserve on your head!
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For you have taken my silver and my gold, and my beautiful treasures you have carried into your temples.
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And the sons of Judah and Jerusalem you sold to the sons of the Greeks, in order to remove them from their border.
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Look! I [am] rousing them from the place where you have sold them, and I will return what you deserve on your head!
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I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to [the] Sabeans and to a nation far [away], for Yahweh has spoken.
Yahweh’s Judgment in the Valley of Jehoshaphat
9 Proclaim this among the nations: {Prepare for war}! Stir up the mighty warriors; let them approach and come up; [let] all the men of war approach.
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Beat your cutting tools of iron into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, 'I am a mighty warrior!'
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Hurry and come, all the nations, from all around, and gather [yourselves] there. Bring down your mighty warriors, O Yahweh!
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Let the nations be roused and let them come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations from all around.
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Send forth [the] sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Go tread, for [the] winepress is full! The vats overflow, because their evil [is] great!
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Commotion, commotion in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh [is] near in the valley of decision!
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[The] sun and [the] moon grow dark, and [the] stars {have withheld} their splendor.
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And Yahweh roars from Zion; from Jerusalem he utters his voice, and [the] heavens and [the] earth shake. But Yahweh [is] a refuge for his people, and a protection for the children of Israel.