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4: 1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall return the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
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4: 2 and I will bring together all the nations, and will bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will judge there with them on account of My people and My heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted My land.
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4: 3 And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
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4: 4 And also, what are you to Me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the boundaries of Philistia? Will you repay Me a recompense? And if you recompense on Me, swiftly and hastily will I return your recompense on your own head,
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4: 5 that you have taken My silver and My gold, and My best desired things you have brought into your temples;
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4: 6 and the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem you have sold to the sons of the Greeks, so that they will be far from their border.
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4: 7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place into which you have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head.
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4: 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off; for Jehovah has spoken it.
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4: 9 Proclaim ye this among the nations: Prepare war, stir up the mighty men, let all the men of war approach; let them come up;
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4: 10 beat your mattocks into swords, and your pruninghooks into lances; let him who is overcome say, I am mighty.
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4: 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye nations, and bring yourselves together all around; thither cause Thy mighty ones to set down, O Jehovah.
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4: 12 Let the nations be stirred up, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations all around.
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4: 13 Send out the sickle, for the harvest has ripened; come, go down, for the wine vat is full; the winepresses spill over, for much is their evil.
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4: 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
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4: 15 The sun and the moon shall be blackened, and the stars shall gather in their brightness.
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4: 16 Jehovah also shall roar from Zion, and give forth His voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall quake; but Jehovah will be the protection for His people, and the stronghold of the sons of Israel.
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4: 17 And you shall know that I am Jehovah your God inhabiting Zion, the mountain of My holiness; and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her any more.
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4: 18 And it shall be in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the channels of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall go out from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the Brook of Shittim.
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4: 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the sons of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
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4: 20 But Judah shall dwell to eternity, and Jerusalem to generation and generation.
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4: 21 And I will render innocent their blood that I have not rendered innocent; and Jehovah inhabits Zion.30
