1 For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall turn again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,2 I will also gather all the nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people and mine inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land;3 and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk {it}.4 Yea also, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompence? But if ye recompense me, swiftly {and} speedily will I bring your recompence upon your own head;5 because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,6 and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.7 Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring 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 nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken.9 Proclaim this among the nations: prepare war, arouse the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.10 Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.11 Haste ye and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together. Thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.12 Let the nations rouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down, for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is at hand in the valley of decision.15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.16 And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: and Jehovah will be a shelter for his people, and the refuge of the children of Israel.17 And ye shall know that I, Jehovah, {am} your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; and Jerusalem shall be holy, and no strangers shall 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 water-courses of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, 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, in that they have shed innocent blood in their land.20 But Judah shall abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.21 And I will purge them from the blood from which I had not purged them: for Jehovah dwelleth in Zion.

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.