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3.5 :For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape,
 * As the hath said,
 * And among the remnant those whom the shall call.


 * For, behold, in those days, and in that time,
 * When I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
 * I will gather all nations,
 * And will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;
 * And I will enter into judgment with them there
 * For My people and for My heritage Israel,
 * Whom they have scattered among the nations,
 * And divided My land.
 * 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.

And also what are ye to Me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render retribution on My behalf? and if ye render retribution on My behalf, swiftly, speedily will I return your retribution upon your own head. Forasmuch as ye have taken My silver and My gold, and have carried into your temples My goodly treasures; the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Jevanim, that ye might remove them far from their border; behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your retribution upon your own head; and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and; they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off; for the hath spoken.


 * Proclaim ye this among the nations,
 * Prepare war;
 * Stir up the mighty men;
 * Let all the men of war draw near,
 * Let them come up.
 * Beat your plowshares into swords,
 * And your pruning-hooks into spears;
 * Let the weak say: 'I am strong.'
 * Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about,
 * And gather yourselves together;
 * Thither cause Thy mighty ones to come down, O !
 * Let the nations be stirred up, and come up
 * To the valley of Jehoshaphat;
 * For there will I sit to judge
 * All the nations round about.
 * Put ye in the sickle,
 * For the harvest is ripe;
 * Come, tread ye,
 * For the winepress is full, the vats overflow;
 * For their wickedness is great.


 * Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
 * For the day of the is near in the valley of decision.
 * The sun and the moon are become black,
 * And the stars withdraw their shining.
 * And the shall roar from Zion,
 * And utter His voice from Jerusalem,
 * And the heavens and the earth shall shake;
 * But the will be a refuge unto His people,
 * And a stronghold to the children of Israel.