1 Porque, eis que naqueles dias, e naquele tempo, em que removerei o cativeiro de Judá e de Jerusalém,

2 Congregarei todas as nações, e as farei descer ao vale de Jeosafá; e ali com elas entrarei em juízo, por causa do meu povo, e da minha herança, Israel, a quem elas espalharam entre as nações e repartiram a minha terra.

3 E lançaram sortes sobre o meu povo, e deram um menino por uma meretriz, e venderam uma menina por vinho, para beberem.

4 E também que tendes vós comigo, Tiro e Sidom, e todas as regiões da Filístia? É tal o pago que vós me dais? Pois se me pagais assim, bem depressa vos farei tornar a vossa paga sobre a vossa cabeça.

5 Visto como levastes a minha prata e o meu ouro, e as minhas coisas desejáveis e formosas pusestes nos vossos templos.

6 E vendestes os filhos de Judá e os filhos de Jerusalém aos filhos dos gregos, para os apartar para longe dos seus termos.

7 Eis que eu os suscitarei do lugar para onde os vendestes, e farei tornar a vossa paga sobre a vossa própria cabeça.

8 E venderei vossos filhos e vossas filhas na mão dos filhos de Judá, que os venderão aos sabeus, a um povo distante, porque o Senhor o disse.

9 Proclamai isto entre os gentios; preparai a guerra, suscitai os fortes; cheguem-se, subam todos os homens de guerra.

10 Forjai espadas das vossas enxadas, e lanças das vossas foices; diga o fraco: Eu sou forte.

11 Ajuntai-vos, e vinde, todos os gentios em redor, e congregai-vos. Ó Senhor, faze descer ali os teus fortes;

12 Suscitem-se os gentios, e subam ao vale de Jeosafá; pois ali me assentarei para julgar todos os gentios em redor.

13 Lançai a foice, porque já está madura a seara; vinde, descei, porque o lagar está cheio, e os vasos dos lagares transbordam, porque a sua malícia é grande.

14 Multidões, multidões no vale da decisão; porque o dia do Senhor está perto, no vale da decisão.

15 O sol e a lua se enegrecerão, e as estrelas retirarão o seu resplendor.

16 E o Senhor bramará de Sião, e de Jerusalém fará ouvir a sua voz; e os céus e a terra tremerão, mas o Senhor será o refúgio do seu povo, e a fortaleza dos filhos de Israel.

17 E vós sabereis que eu sou o Senhor vosso Deus, que habito em Sião, o meu santo monte; e Jerusalém será santa; estranhos não passarão mais por ela.

18 E há de ser que, naquele dia, os montes destilarão mosto, e os outeiros manarão leite, e todos os rios de Judá estarão cheios de águas; e sairá uma fonte, da casa do Senhor, e regará o vale de Sitim.

19 O Egito se fará uma desolação, e Edom se fará um deserto assolado, por causa da violência que fizeram aos filhos de Judá, em cuja terra derramaram sangue inocente.

20 Mas Judá será habitada para sempre, e Jerusalém de geração em geração.

21 E purificarei o sangue dos que eu não tinha purificado; porque o Senhor habitará em Sião.

1 \2:28\And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:

2 \2:29\And on the servants and the servant-girls in those days I will send my spirit.

3 \2:30\And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

4 \2:31\The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.

5 \2:32\And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

6 \3:1\For in those days and in that time, when I let the fate of Judah and Jerusalem be changed,

7 \3:2\I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them.

8 \3:3\And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.

9 \3:4\And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,

10 \3:5\For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

11 \3:6\And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:

12 \3:7\See, I will have them moved from the place where you have sent them, and will let what you have done come back on your head;

13 \3:8\I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.

14 \3:9\Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.

15 \3:10\Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.

16 \3:11\Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.

17 \3:12\Let the nations be awake, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will be seated as judge of all the nations round about.

18 \3:13\Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.

19 \3:14\Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

20 \3:15\The sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining.

21 \3:16\And the Lord will be thundering from Zion, and his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will be shaking: but the Lord will be a breastplate for his people and a strong place for the children of Israel.

22 \3:17\And you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, living in Zion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem will be holy, and no strange person will ever again go through her.

23 \3:18\And it will come about in that day that the mountains will be dropping sweet wine, and the hills will be flowing with milk, and all the streams of Judah will be flowing with water; and a fountain will come out from the house of the Lord, watering the valley of acacia-trees.

24 \3:19\Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause.

25 \3:20\But Judah will be peopled for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

26 \3:21\And I will send punishment for their blood, for which punishment has not been sent, for the Lord is living in Zion.