3 ¹ "For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, 3 ² I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations, and have divided up my land, 3 ³ and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and have sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it. 3 ⁴ "What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will requite your deed upon your own head swiftly and speedily. 3 ⁵ Fore you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my riches into your temples. 3 ⁶ You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border. 3 ⁷ but now I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will require your deed upon your own head. 3 ⁸ I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off; for Yahweh has spoken."

3 ⁹ Proclaim this among the nations:
Prepare war,
stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near,
let them come up.
3 ¹⁰ Beat your plowshares into swords,
and your pruning hooks into spears;
let the weak say, "I am a warrior."

3 ¹¹ Hasten and come,
all the nations round about,
gather themselves there.
Bring down your warriors, O Yahweh.
3 ¹² Let the nations bestir themselves,
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;
for there I will sit to judge
all the nations round about.

3 ¹³ Put in the sickle,
for the harvest is ripe.
Go in, tread,
for the wine press is full.
the vats overflow,
for their wickedness is great.

3 ¹⁴ Multitudes, multitudes,
in the valley of decision!
For the day of Yahweh is near
in the valley of decision.
3 ¹⁵ The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.