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67 lines
3.1 KiB
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## Yahweh Will Judge the Nations
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"For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
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I will gather all the nations And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; And they have divided up My land.
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They have also cast lots for My people, Traded a boy for a harlot, And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.
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Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense on your head.
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Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My desirable treasures to your temples,
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and sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks in order to remove them far from their borders,
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behold, I am going to rouse them from the place where you have sold them and return your recompense on your head.
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Also I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation," for Yahweh has spoken.
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Call out this _message_ among the nations: Set _yourselves_ apart for a war; rouse the mighty men! Let all the men of war approach, let them come up!
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Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I am a mighty man."
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###### 11
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Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves. There, bring down, O Yahweh, Your mighty ones.
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###### 12
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Let the nations be roused up And come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I will sit to judge All the surrounding nations.
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###### 13
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Send in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full; The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision.
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The sun and moon grow dark, And the stars lose their brightness.
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And Yahweh roars from Zion And gives forth His voice from Jerusalem, And the heavens and the earth quake. But Yahweh is a refuge for His people And a strong defense to the sons of Israel.
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Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God, Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. So Jerusalem will be holy, And strangers will pass through it no more.
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## Yahweh Dwells in Zion
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And it will be in that day, _That_ the mountains will drip with sweet wine, And the hills will flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah will flow with water; And a spring will go out from the house of Yahweh To water the valley of Shittim.
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Egypt will become a desolation, And Edom will become a desolate wilderness, Because of the violence done to the sons of Judah, In whose land they have shed innocent blood.
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But Judah will be inhabited forever And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
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And I will avenge their blood which I have not avenged, Indeed, Yahweh dwells in Zion.
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