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 You took my silver and my gold.
You brought my finest treasures to your temples.
⁶ You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks.
That way you could send them far away from their land.
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 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 Announce this among the nations:
Prepare yourselves for war.
Wake up the warriors.
Have all the warriors come near and attack.
¹⁰ Hammer your plowblades into swords
and your pruning shears into spears.
Weaklings should say that they are warriors.

¹¹ Hurry from every direction, and gather there, all you nations.
O Lord, bring your soldiers.
¹² Wake up, you nations.
Come to the valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

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 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 will turn dark.
The stars will no longer shine.
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 “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 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 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 People will always live in Judah.
People will live in Jerusalem from now on.
²¹ I will punish those who murder.”
The Lord lives in Zion!