The Darby Translation DBY
GOD'S WORD Translation GW
1 For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall turn again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
1 "In those days and at that time, I will bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem.
2 I will also gather all the nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people and mine inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land;
2 I will gather all the nations. I will bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. I will judge them there. They scattered the Israelites, the people who belong to me, among the nations. They divided my land.
3 and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk [it].
3 They threw dice for my people. They traded boys for prostitutes. They sold girls so that they could buy wine to drink.
4 Yea also, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompence? But if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I bring your recompence upon your own head;
4 "Now what do you have against me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will quickly pay you back for what you have done.
5 because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,
5 You took my silver and my gold. You brought my finest treasures to your temples.
6 and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.
6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks. That way you could send them far away from their land.
7 Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompence upon your own head.
7 I am going to make them leave the place where you sold them. I will pay you back for what you have done.
8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken.
8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah. They will sell them to the people of Sheba, a nation that is far away." The LORD has spoken.
9 Proclaim this among the nations: prepare war, arouse the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.
9 Announce this among the nations: Prepare yourselves for war. Wake up the warriors. Have all the warriors come near and attack.
10 Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.
10 Hammer your plowblades into swords and your pruning shears into spears. Weaklings should say that they are warriors.
11 Haste ye and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together. Thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.
11 Hurry from every direction, and gather there, all you nations. O LORD, bring your soldiers.
12 Let the nations rouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.
12 Wake up, you nations. Come to the valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down, for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
13 Cut them down like grain. The harvest is ripe. Stomp on them as you would stomp on grapes. The winepress is full. The vats overflow. The nations are very wicked.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is at hand in the valley of decision.
14 There are many, many people in the valley of decision. The day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
15 The sun and the moon will turn dark. The stars will no longer shine.
16 And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: and Jehovah will be a shelter for his people, and the refuge of the children of Israel.
16 The LORD will roar from Zion, and his voice will thunder from Jerusalem. The sky and the earth will shake. The LORD will be a refuge for his people. He will be a stronghold for the people of Israel.
17 And ye shall know that I, Jehovah, [am] your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; and Jerusalem shall be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more.
17 "You will know that I am the LORD your God. I live on my holy mountain, Zion. Jerusalem will be holy. Foreigners will never invade it again.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the water-courses of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
18 On that day new wine will cover the mountains. Milk will flow on the hills. Water will flow in all the brooks of Judah. A spring will flow from the LORD's temple. It will water the valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, in that they have shed innocent blood in their land.
19 Egypt will become a wasteland. Edom will become a barren desert. This is because the nations were cruel to Judah. They murdered innocent people in their land.
20 But Judah shall abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
20 People will always live in Judah. People will live in Jerusalem from now on.
21 And I will purge them from the blood from which I had not purged them: for Jehovah dwelleth in Zion.
21 I will punish those who murder." The LORD lives in Zion!
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