1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, Compare verse2 commentaries
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. Compare verse2 commentaries
3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. Compare verse1 commentary
4 Yes, and what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will you render me a recompense? and if you recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense on your own head; Compare verse1 commentary
5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: Compare verse1 commentary
6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you sold to the Grecians, that you might remove them far from their border. Compare verse1 commentary
7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your recompense on your own head: Compare verse1 commentary
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 people far off: for the LORD has spoken it. Compare verse1 commentary
9 Proclaim you this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: Compare verse1 commentary
10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Compare verse3 commentaries
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause your mighty ones to come down, O LORD. Compare verse3 commentaries
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Compare verse2 commentaries
13 Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Compare verse2 commentaries
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. Compare verse1 commentary
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. Compare verse1 commentary
16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. Compare verse1 commentary
17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. Compare verse1 commentary
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 rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. Compare verse3 commentaries
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. Compare verse1 commentary