1 Porquanto eis que, naqueles dias, no tempo em que eu realizar a restauração de Judá e de Jerusalém,

2 reunirei todas as nações e as farei descer ao vale de Josafá. Ali entrarei com elas em juízo acerca de Israel, meu povo e minha herança, o qual dispersaram pelas nações pagãs, depois de dividir minha terra.

3 Rifaram o meu povo; davam um menino para pagar uma cortesã, e vendiam uma jovem em troca de vinho para beberem!

4 E vós, que quereis de mim, Tiro e Sidon? E vós, distritos da Filistéia? Quereis, por acaso, tirar vingança de mim? Mas se é uma provocação, farei cair imediatamente sobre vossa cabeça a vossa provocação,

5 porque roubastes minha prata e meu ouro, levastes para os vossos templos minhas jóias mais preciosas;

6 vendestes aos jônios os filhos de Judá e os filhos de Jerusalém, que foram assim deportados para longe de sua pátria.

7 Eis que vou reconduzi-los do lugar em que vós os vendestes, e farei recair sobre vossas cabeças vossos próprios atos.

8 Venderei vossos filhos e vossas filhas aos judeus, e estes os venderão aos sabeus, povo longínquo; é o Senhor quem o declara.

9 Proclamai isto entre as nações: Declarai a guerra! Chamai os valentes! Aproximem-se, subam todos os guerreiros!

10 Os vossos arados, transformai-os em espadas,e as vossas foices, em lanças! Mesmo o enfermo diga: Eu sou guerreiro!

11 Depressa, nações! Vinde todas: reuni-vos de toda parte! Ó Senhor, fazei descer ali os vossos valentes!

12 De pé, nações! Subi ao vale de Josafá, porque é ali que vou sentar-me para julgar todos os povos ao redor!

13 Metei a foice, a messe está madura; vinde pisar, o lagar está cheio; as cubas transbordam - porque é imensa a maldade dos povos!

14 Que multidão, que multidão no vale do julgamento, porque chegou o dia do Senhor {no vale do julgamento}!

15 O sol e a lua se obscurecem, as estrelas empalidecem.

16 O Senhor rugirá de Sião, trovejará de Jerusalém; os céus e a terra serão abalados. Mas o Senhor será um refúgio para o seu povo, uma fortaleza para os israelitas.

17 Sabereis então que eu sou o Senhor, vosso Deus, que habita em Sião, minha montanha santa. Jerusalém será um lugar sagrado onde os estrangeiros não tornarão mais a passar.

18 Naquele dia, as montanhas destilarão vinho, o leite manará das colinas; todas as torrentes de Judá jorrarão; uma fonte sairá do templo do Senhor para irrigar o vale das Acácias.

19 O Egito será todo assolado, Edom será um deserto devastado, por causa das violências cometidas contra os judeus, e por causa do sangue inocente derramado em seu solo;

20 mas Judá será habitado perpetuamente, e Jerusalém, de idade em idade.

21 Vingarei o seu sangue, que eu não tinha ainda vingado, e 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.