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\c 3
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\v 1 Behold, in those days and at that time,
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\q when I return the exiles of Judah and Jerusalem,
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\q
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\v 2 I will gather all the nations,
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\q and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
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\q I will judge them there,
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\q because of my people and my inheritance Israel,
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\q whom they scattered among the nations,
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\q and because they divided up my land.
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\q
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\v 3 They threw lots for my people,
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\q traded a boy for a prostitute,
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\q and sold a girl for wine
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\q so they could drink.
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\v 4 Now, why are you angry at me,
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\q Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of Philistia?
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\q Will you repay me?
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\q Even if you do repay me,
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\q I will immediately return your retribution on your own head.
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\v 5 For you took my silver and my gold,
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\q and you brought my precious treasures into your temples.
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\q
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\v 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,
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\q in order to remove them far from their territory.
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\v 7 Look, I am about to stir them up, out of the place where you sold them,
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\q and will return payment on your own head.
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\v 8 I will sell your sons and your daughters,
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\q by the hand of the people of Judah.
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\q They will sell them to the Sabeans,
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\q to a nation far off,
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\q for Yahweh has spoken."
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\v 9 Proclaim this among the nations,
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\q "Prepare yourselves for war,
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\q rouse the mighty men,
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\q let them come near,
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\q let all the men of battle come up.
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\v 10 Beat your plowshares into swords
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\q and your pruning knives into spears.
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\q Let the weak say,
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\q 'I am strong.'
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\v 11 Hurry and come,
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\q all you nearby nations,
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\q gather yourselves together there.
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'Yahweh, bring down your mighty warriors.'
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\v 12 Let the nations wake themselves up
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\q and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
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\q For there will I sit to judge
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\q all the surrounding nations.
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\v 13 Put in the sickle,
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\q for the harvest is ripe.
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\q Come, crush the grapes,
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\q for the winepress is full.
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\q The vats overflow,
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\q for their wickedness is enormous."
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\v 14 There is a tumult, a tumult in the Valley of Judgment.
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\q For the day of Yahweh is near in the Valley of Judgment.
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\v 15 The sun and the moon become dark,
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\q the stars keep back their brightness.
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\v 16 Yahweh will roar from Zion,
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\q and raise his voice from Jerusalem.
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\q The heavens and earth will shake,
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\q but Yahweh will be a shelter for his people,
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\q and a fortress for the people of Israel.
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\v 17 "So you will know that I am Yahweh your God
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\q who lives in Zion, my holy mountain.
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\q Then Jerusalem will be holy,
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\q and no army will march through her again.
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\v 18 It will come about on that day
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\q that the mountains will drip with sweet wine,
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\q the hills will flow with milk,
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\q all the brooks of Judah will flow with water,
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\q and a fountain will come from the house of Yahweh
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\q and water the Valley of Shittim.
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\q
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\v 19 Egypt will become an abandoned devastation,
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\q and Edom will become an abandoned wilderness,
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\q because of the violence done to the people of Judah,
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\q because they shed innocent blood in their land.
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\v 20 But Judah will be inhabited forever,
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\q and Jerusalem will be inhabited from generation to generation.
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\q
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\v 21 I will avenge their blood that I have not yet avenged,
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\q for Yahweh lives in Zion."
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