1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 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. 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. 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: 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 hath spoken it.

9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 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. 13 Put ye 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. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 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. 17 So shall ye 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.

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 of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. 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. 20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

1 "看哪！ 到了那些日子， 在那个时期， 我使犹大和耶路撒冷被掳的人归回， （本节在《马索拉抄本》为4:1）

2 我必招聚列国， 领他们下到约沙法谷， 为了我的子民， 就是我的产业以色列， 我要在那里亲临审判他们， 因为他们把我的子民分散在列国中， 又分取了我的地土。

3 他们为我的子民抽签， 用男童交换妓女， 女童被卖换酒喝。

4 "推罗、西顿和非利士四境的人哪！ 你们想对我作什么呢？你们想向我报复吗？你们若向我报复， 我很快就使报应归在你们的头上。

5 你们拿去了我的金银， 又把我的珍宝带进了你们的庙宇。

6 你们把犹大人和耶路撒冷人卖给希腊人， 使他们远离自己的境界。

7 看哪！ 我要激动他们离开被你们卖到的地方， 我也要使报应归到你们的头上。

8 我必把你们的儿女卖在犹大人的手中， 犹大人必把他们卖给远方示巴国的人， 因为这是耶和华说的。"

9 你们要在列国中宣告以下这话： "你们要预备争战， 要激动勇士。让所有的战士都近前来， 让他们都上去攻击。

10 要把犁头打成刀剑， 把镰刀打成矛枪； 软弱的要说： ‘我是勇士。’

11 四围的列国啊！ 你们快来帮助， 在那里一同聚集。耶和华啊！ 求你叫你的勇士下来吧。

12 "万国都当奋起， 上到约沙法谷去。因为我必坐在那里， 审判四围的列国。

13 你们要伸出镰刀， 因为庄稼已经熟了。来践踏吧， 因为压酒池满了， 酒池盈溢， 因为他们的罪恶极大。

14 无数的人群齐集在判决谷， 因为耶和华的日子临近了判决谷。

15 日月昏暗， 星星无光。

16 耶和华从锡安吼叫， 并从耶路撒冷发声， 天地就震动。耶和华却要作他子民的避难所， 作以色列众子的保障。

17 你们知道我是耶和华你们的 神， 是住在锡安我的圣山上。那时， 耶路撒冷必成为圣。外族人必不得从其中经过。

18 到那日， 大山都必滴下甜酒， 小山都必流出奶， 犹大的一切溪流， 都必水流不息。必有泉源从耶和华的殿里流出来， 灌溉河谷。

19 埃及将会荒凉， 以东必变成凄凉的旷野， 都因为他们向犹大人所行的强暴， 又因为在他们的国中流了无辜人血。

20 "但犹大必存到永远， 耶路撒冷也必存到万代。

21 现在我要追讨我还未有追讨的流人血的罪。耶和华在锡安居住。"