3:1 Behold! In those days and in that time, when I will bring back from the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

3:2 and I will gather all nations and I will bring them to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and then will enter into justice with them in favor of my people and for Israel, my inheritance which is dispersed among the nations and because they divided my land

3:3 and have cast lots for my people and delivered boys as payment to prostitutes and sold girls for wine to drink.

3:4 You, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of the Philistines, what do you have to do with me? Are you taking revenge against me? If you make retaliation against me, very soon and quickly, I will return revenge on your head;

3:5 because you took my gold and silver, and you took my precious utensils to your temples,

3:6 and the children of Judah and Jerusalem were sold to the Greeks to remove them from their border.

3:7 Behold! I will raise them up in the place where you sold them, and I will return your revenge on your head.

3:8 I will deliver your sons and daughters into the hands of the children of Judah and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a far-away people, because Mar-Yah has spoken.

3:9 Proclaim this among the nations; prepare for the war, raise up the mighty men, let all the warriors come forward and go up.

3:10 Beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. The weak will say, ‘I am strong!’

3:11 Gather yourselves from every nation, come forward, because there Mar-Yah will break their rule.

3:12 Awaken the nations and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat, because there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

3:13 Put in the pruning hooks, for the harvest is mature; come and tread down, for the winepresses are filled and the houses are overflowing, for their wickedness has has become great.

3:14 Distress and tumult in the valley of decision, because near is the day of Mar-Yah in the valley of decision.

3:15 The sun will be darkened and the moon and stars will retract their radiance.

3:16 Mar-Yah roars from Zion and from Jerusalem he gives his voice; the heavens and the earth tremble, but Mar-Yah is compassionate on account of his people and will strengthen the children of Israel.

3:17 Then they will know that I am Mar-Yah your Alaha who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem is holy, and foreigners will no longer dwell in it.

3:18 It shall happen in that day that from the mountains wine and milk will flow from the hills, and water will run from all the streams of Judah. And a spring will come out from the House of Mar-Yah and shall water the Valley of Shittim.

3:19 Egypt will become a waste and Edom a parched desert, for the violence done to children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

3:20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation,

3:21 and I will take vengeance for their blood, and I will not have mercy. Mar-Yah dwells in Zion!