1 Want kyk, in die dae en in die tyd wanneer Ek die lot van Juda en Jerusalem verander,
2 sal Ek al die nasies versamel en hulle na die dal van Josafat laat aftrek, om daar met hulle 'n strafgerig te hou ter wille van my volk en my erfdeel Israel wat hulle onder die nasies verstrooi het, en my land wat hulle verdeel het.
3 En oor my volk het hulle die lot gewerp en 'n jong seun weggegee vir 'n hoer en 'n meisie verkoop vir wyn en dit gedrink.
4 En ook, wat het julle met My te doen, o Tirus en Sidon en al die landstreke van Filist,a? Wil julle My iets vergelde, of wil julle My iets aandoen? Gou, ylings sal Ek julle dade op julle hoof laat neerkom.
5 Want julle het my silwer en my goud geneem en my kosbare skatte na julle tempels gebring.
6 Verder het julle die kinders van Juda en die kinders van Jerusalem aan die kinders van Jawan verkoop, om hulle ver van hul grondgebied te verwyder.
7 Kyk, Ek sal hulle laat opstaan uit die plek waarheen julle hulle verkoop het, en julle dade op julle hoof laat neerkom.
8 En Ek sal julle seuns en julle dogters aan die kinders van Juda verkoop, en die sal hulle verkoop aan die Sabeërs, aan 'n verafgeleë volk want die HERE het dit gespreek.
9 Roep dit uit onder die nasies, heilig 'n oorlog! Wek die helde op, laat al die krygsmanne nader kom, opruk!
10 Smee van julle pikke swaarde en van julle snoeimesse spiese; laat die swakke sê: Ek is 'n held.
11 Haas julle en kom aan, alle nasies rondom, en versamel julle. Laat u helde, HERE, daarheen aftrek!
12 Die nasies moet hulle klaarmaak en optrek na die dal van Josafat; want daar sal Ek sit om gerig te hou oor al die nasies rondom.
13 Steek die sekel in, want die oes is ryp! Kom trap, want die parskuip is vol, die kuipe loop oor! Want hulle boosheid is groot.
14 Menigtes, menigtes in die dal van beslissing, want naby is die dag van die HERE in die dal van beslissing!
15 Die son en die maan word duister, en die sterre trek hulle glans in.
16 En die HERE brul uit Sion, en uit Jerusalem verhef Hy sy stem, sodat hemel en aarde bewe. Maar die HERE sal 'n toevlug wees vir sy volk en 'n skuilplek vir die kinders van Israel.
17 Dan sal julle weet dat Ek die HERE julle God is, wat woon op Sion, my heilige berg; dan sal Jerusalem 'n heiligdom wees waar geen vreemdes meer deur sal trek nie.
18 En op die dag sal die berge drup van mos en die heuwels vloei van melk en al die spruitjies van Juda stroom van water; en uit die huis van die HERE sal daar 'n fontein uitkom om die dal Sittim te besproei.
19 Egipte sal 'n woesteny word, en Edom 'n woeste wildernis wees, weens die geweld wat hulle die kinders van Juda aangedoen het, dat hulle onskuldige bloed in hul land vergiet het.
20 Maar Juda sal vir ewig bly, en Jerusalem van geslag tot geslag.
21 En Ek sal hulle bloed onskuldig verklaar, wat Ek tevore nie onskuldig verklaar het nie; en die HERE sal op Sion bly woon.
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.